Against Management
Organization in the Age of Managerialism

Against 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.

Against Management deliberately attempts to blur the boundaries between academic and popular writing, and encourages some radical questioning of the common sense that tells us that we need management, managers and management schools. This will be essential reading for second--year undergraduates and above in business and management studies (including MBA), sociology and cultural studies.

Acknowledgements. 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