ABSTRACT
James Burnham is a major thinker of management of the 1940s. In 1941, he published his famous book entitled The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World. In this chapter, several archives are used to analyze his vision in the context of the 1930s and 1940s, in particular the war and the industrial mobilization. Burnham defended the thesis of an emerging new social class (managers) and a new kind of socio-economic system beyond capitalism and socialism. The presence and experience of Burnham in the United States and in New York is used here as a point of exploration of the first element involved in the great encounter between management and digitality, managers and their need for control. Finally, a discussion on the future of James Burnham's thinking wraps the chapter up.
