Unnecessary Suffering: Management, Markets and the Liquidation of Solidarity (Paperback)


They have a dream - a dream of a world where everything and everybody can't be bought and sold, a world run efficiently by managers, a world where freedom means the free market. This book argues that this dream is an unrealizable utopia - or nightmare if put into practice. It takes the tired old cliches of management-speak of the New Right and New Left alike and turns them on their heads: managers are not efficient, they are a barrier to work and production. Liberal democracy - which now means the free market and the strong state - should be turned upside down, with democracy at the level of the economy and liberalism at the level of the state.

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They have a dream - a dream of a world where everything and everybody can't be bought and sold, a world run efficiently by managers, a world where freedom means the free market. This book argues that this dream is an unrealizable utopia - or nightmare if put into practice. It takes the tired old cliches of management-speak of the New Right and New Left alike and turns them on their heads: managers are not efficient, they are a barrier to work and production. Liberal democracy - which now means the free market and the strong state - should be turned upside down, with democracy at the level of the economy and liberalism at the level of the state.

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General

Imprint

Verso Books

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

October 1996

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Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

November 1996

Authors

Dimensions

215 x 135 x 15mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback

Pages

184

ISBN-13

978-1-85984-071-9

Barcode

9781859840719

Categories

LSN

1-85984-071-X



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