Abstract: In his last book La religion industrielle. Monastère, manufacture, usine. Une généalogie de l’entreprise, Pierre Musso develops a stimulating theory: since the middle-ages, the concept of industry has evolved from the order of religion to economics. This paper focuses mainly on the third part of the book leading to the present managerial revolution. Apart from some theological biases, its argument suffers from a critical approach of managerial thinking, curiously limited to the 1950s decade
