Dominance of Management

Dr Leonard Holmes, Reader in Management, School of Business and Social Sciences, Roehampton University, UK

• Contents: Management, the emergence of a dominating paradigm; The nature of management; Radical organization theory and research; Management and the labour process; Management and class analysis; The capitalist state and management; Popular planning in modern London: a context of disparities; Processes of domination in the management of a job creation project; Community initiative or state enterprise? Setting up Stonebridge; Who managed the Charlton Training Centre?; Attempting democratic organization: tensions and contradictions; Beyond the dominance of management; Bibliography; Index.