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"A brilliant work that shows how the political contours of our contemporary neoliberal societies took shape in the crisis-laden decade of the 1970s"--
List of contents
Table of contents:Introduction
Part I. Indocile workers
Chapter One. Indiscipline on the shop floor
Chapter Two. Human resources
Chapter Three. Social insecurity
Chapter Four. War on the unions
Part Two. Managerial revolution
Chapter Five. A theological crisis
Chapter Six. Ethical managerialism
Chapter Seven. Disciplining the managers
Chapter Eight. Catallarchy
Part Three. Attack on free enterprise
Chapter Nine. Private government under siege
Chapter Ten. The battle of ideas
Chapter Eleven. How to react?
Chapter Twelve. The corporation does not exist
Chapter Thirteen. Police theories of the firm
Part Four. A world of protesters
Chapter Fourteen. Corporate counter-activism
Chapter Fifteen. The production of the dominant dialogy
Chapter Sixteen. Issue management
Chapter Seventeen. Stakeholders
Part Five. New regulations
Chapter Eighteen. Soft law
Chapter Nineteen. Costs/benefits
Chapter Twenty. A critique of political ecology
Chapter Twenty-One. Making people responsible
Part Six. The ungovernable state
Chapter Twenty-Two. The crisis of governability of the democracies
Chapter Twenty-Three. Hayek in Chile
Chapter Twenty-Four. The sources of authoritarian liberalism
Chapter Twenty-Five. Dethroning politics
Chapter Twenty-Six. The micropolitics of privatization
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the author
Grégoire Chamayou is a researcher at the CNRS, Paris.
Summary
"A brilliant work that shows how the political contours of our contemporary neoliberal societies took shape in the crisis-laden decade of the 1970s"--
