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The dominance of management : a participatory critique / by Leonard Holmes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holmes, Leonard.
- Series:
- Voices in development management.
- Voices in development management
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Management--Research--Great Britain.
- Management.
- Management--England--London--Case studies.
- Community development--England--London--Case studies.
- Community development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Burlington, VT. : Ashgate, 2010.
- Summary:
- Offers a controversial reanalysis of the rise and dominance of managerialist approaches to development by using two British inner-city community development projects as case studies to shows how 'managed development' runs counter to participatory values and aspirations of communities receiving development aid.
- Contents:
- Management: the emergence of a dominating paradigm
- The nature of management
- Radical organization theory and research
- Management and the labour process
- Management and class analysis
- The capitalist state and management
- Popular planning in modern London: a context of disparities
- Processes of domination in the management of a job creation scheme
- Community initiative or state enterprise?
- Setting up Stonebridge
- Who managed the Charlton Training Centre?
- Attempting democratic organization: tensions and contradictions
- Beyond the dominance of management.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-61566-5
- 1-317-03535-6
- 1-317-03534-8
- 1-282-65774-7
- 9786612657740
- 1-4094-1047-1
- 9781315615660
- OCLC:
- 652653763
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