State Work - Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality

"There is a growing need for a socially critical understanding of corporate management and government. Stefano Harney's book is a timely contribution in this regard. This is a painstaking analysis of the complexity of political and administrative processes."--Tony Tinker, Editor, "Critical Perspectives on Accounting"

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Hands of a Government Man
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1. Yes, Minister: The Rise and Fall of the Ontario Antiracism Secretariat

2. Reengineering Immaterial G-Men
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3. Reinventing Statolatry: From Nicos Poulantzas to Al Gore
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4. Generalizing Social Terror: Public Management and Performance by Objectives

5. The Administration of Motivation: Any Cook Can Network

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the author

Stefano Harney is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island.

Summary

Examines the labor of government workers in North America. Countering conceptions of the government and its employees as remote and inflexible, this work uses the theory of mass intellectuality developed by Italian worker-theorists to illuminate the potential for genuine political progress inherent within state work.

Product details

• Authors: Harney, Stefano Harney
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.07.2002
• EAN: 9780822328957
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2895-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 235 mm x 150 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 398 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social