The Dominance of Management: A Participatory CritiqueThis book offers a controversial reanalysis of the rise and dominance of managerialist approaches to development. Linking two British inner-city community development projects with projects in the developing world it shows how ‘managed development’ runs counter to participatory values and aspirations of communities receiving development aid. This, in effect, mutes the voices of these communities. In conclusion, Holmes draws implications for the emerging community development agenda in urban development throughout the world. |
Contents
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The Nature of Management | 15 |
Radical Organization Theory and Research | 25 |
Management and the Labour Process | 39 |
Management and Class Analysis | 53 |
The Capitalist State and Management | 67 |
A Context of Disparities | 85 |
Processes of Domination in the Management of a Job Creation Project | 107 |
Community Initiative or State Enterprise? Setting up Stonebridge | 117 |
Who Managed the Charlton Training Centre? | 143 |
Tensions and Contradictions | 161 |
Beyond the Dominance of Management? | 177 |
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action activities administrative agencies agreed analysis approach areas argues authority Braverman Brent Council Burrell and Morgan bus depot Bus Garage Project capital capitalist mode Centre Coordinators changes Charlton Training Centre Committee Community Council Community Programme concerned Consortium context decision Department discussion dominant economic employers employment enterprise examine funding GERU GLTB Greater London Council Greater London Training Greenwich Council ideological industrial initiatives involved issues ITBs labour power labour process London Training Board major management structure managerial Manpower Services Commission Marx mode of production Moreover officers organization organizational particular petty-bourgeoisie plans Policy Coordinator political Poulantzas problems Project Coordinator proletariat proposals radical relations of production responsibility Scheme Manager sector SkillCentre social society staff Stonebridge strategy Sub-Group surplus value theory Therborn trade union Trainee Support Coordinator unemployed Urban Programme various wages Women's Unit Wright Youth Training Scheme