The Competent Public Sphere [electronic resource] : Global Political Economy, Dialogue and the Contemporary Workplace /
Roberts, J.author.
Suggesting that an expressive ideology has arisen within the workplace public sphere around the theme of 'competence', this book explores the hegemony of global finance and the fetishism of the new economy, exposing the dilemmas of the competence agenda, and illustrating how competence is played out in the workplace public sphere.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introducing Competence and the Public Sphere; 2 The New Economy; 3 The New Economy as the Fetish of Financialisation; 4 The Competent Public Sphere of the New Economy; 5 Democracy and Participation in the Competent Public Sphere; 6 Silencing the Thematic Utterances of Workers; 7 Trade Unions, Participation, and the Proletarian Public Sphere; 8 Conclusion: Towards a Socialist Public Sphere; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-200) and index.
Suggesting that an expressive ideology has arisen within the workplace public sphere around the theme of 'competence', this book explores the hegemony of global finance and the fetishism of the new economy, exposing the dilemmas of the competence agenda, and illustrating how competence is played out in the workplace public sphere.
Welfare state.
Industrial sociology.
Industrial organization.
International relations.
Economic sociology.
Business.
Management science.
Politics of the Welfare State.
Sociology of Work.
Industrial Organization.
International Relations.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Business and Management, general.