Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hands of a Government Man

1. Yes, Minister: The Rise and Fall of the Ontario Antiracism Secretariat
2. Reengineering Immaterial G-Men

3. Reinventing Statolatry: From Nicos Poulantzas to Al Gore

4. Generalizing Social Terror: Public Management and Performance by Objectives
5. The Administration of Motivation: Any Cook Can Network
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

This is a case study of ways that labor is organized by public administration to produce state effects.

About the Author

Stefano Harney is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island.

Reviews

"Harney has taken us far from the pedestrian concerns of running a public agency and has shown us that in terms of a politics of social change, the bureaucrats are sexy, very sexy indeed. For that reason alone, this is a provocative book that is bound to stir up some change of its own."--Sanford F. Schram, American Journal of Sociology "[An] ambitious and audacious book... [P]rovocative."--M. Miller, Contemporary Sociology (review negative overall) "[Harney's] book shows this workplace may produce utopian dreams as well as nightmares, even at the state's collective heart. For this it is worth the read."--Greg McElligott, Labour/Le Travail Also reviewed in Choice and Canadian Public Administration. Listed in Critical Inquiry and CHE.