The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism

ISBN-13: 9781509542017 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 350 str.

Gregoire Chamayou

Recenzje

'A comprehensive account, both historical and systematic, of how and why in the 1970s business began to perceive democratic capitalism as ungovernable, and what it tried to do about this: from corporate reform to strengthening the state while weakening democracy. The book adds importantly to our understanding of the neoliberal revolution, its origins and objectives, successes and failures.' Wolfgang Streeck, Emeritus Director and Senior Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany 'Grégoire Chamayou provides a dazzling and wide-ranging genealogy of the intellectual ideas and political strategies which were used to undermine democracy and roll back the economic security and greater equality of the post-war years. An original and rewarding read.' Andrew Gamble, SPERI, University of Sheffield 'With this elegant and important work, Chamayou will surely succeed in bringing out your inner critic of the powers that be.' French Culture

Spis treści

Table of contents:Introduction Part I. Indocile workers Chapter One. Indiscipline on the shop floor Chapter Two. Human resources Chapter Three. Social insecurity Chapter Four. War on the unions Part Two. Managerial revolution Chapter Five. A theological crisis Chapter Six. Ethical managerialism Chapter Seven. Disciplining the managers Chapter Eight. Catallarchy Part Three. Attack on free enterprise Chapter Nine. Private government under siege Chapter Ten. The battle of ideas Chapter Eleven. How to react? Chapter Twelve. The corporation does not exist Chapter Thirteen. Police theories of the firm Part Four. A world of protesters Chapter Fourteen. Corporate counter-activism Chapter Fifteen. The production of the dominant dialogy Chapter Sixteen. Issue management Chapter Seventeen. Stakeholders Part Five. New regulations Chapter Eighteen. Soft law Chapter Nineteen. Costs/benefits Chapter Twenty. A critique of political ecology Chapter Twenty-One. Making people responsible Part Six. The ungovernable state Chapter Twenty-Two. The crisis of governability of the democracies Chapter Twenty-Three. Hayek in Chile Chapter Twenty-Four. The sources of authoritarian liberalism Chapter Twenty-Five. Dethroning politics Chapter Twenty-Six. The micropolitics of privatization Conclusion Notes Index

O autorze

Grégoire Chamayou is a researcher at the CNRS, Paris