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Book SynopsisAgainst Management argues that management is increasingly being seen as a problem, and not a solution. Martin Parker argues that managing is not the only way to organize and that managerialism is a global form of ideology, which is being used to justify considerable cruelty and inequality.
Trade Review"At last the omnipotent Manager faces a serious and worthy opponent in Parker's
Against Management. This is a sophisticated polemic that ought to be compulsory reading for all managers, management students and citizens."
Keith Grint, Templeton College, Oxford
"I really enjoyed reading this book. It is original; it is provocative; it is scholarly in a positive way. It is extraordinarily well written – lucid as well as witty." Christopher Grey, The Judge Institute of Management, Cambridge
"Parker's capacity to combine solid scholarship with the publicist's flair is invaluable in a field often trapped in hyper-intellectualism." Organization
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.
Chapter 1. Managerialism and its Discontents.
Chapter 2. McBureaucracy: Liberalism and the Iron Cage.
Chapter 3. Citizenship: The Corporate State.
Chapter 4. Community: The Freedom to Work.
Chapter 5. The Business of Business Ethics.
Chapter 6. Criticising Critical Management Studies.
Chapter 7. The Culture Industries and the Demonology of Big Organisations.
Chapter 8. Anti-Corporate Protest.
Chapter 9. For Organisation.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index
