State Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality

''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 TravailAlso reviewed in Choice and Canadian Public Administration. Listed in Critical Inquiry and CHE.

An innovative contribution to political theory, Harney examines the labour of government workers in North America. He draws on thinking from public administration and organizational sociology, as well as poststructuralist theory and performance studies, to launch a cultural study of the state.

AcknowledgementsIntroduction
Hands of a Government ManYes Minister
The Rise and Fall of the Ontario Antiracism SecretariatReengineering Immaterial G-MenReinventing Statolatry
From Nicos Poulantzas to Al GoreGeneralizing Social Terror
Public Management and Performance by ObjectivesThe Administration of Motivation
Any Cook Can NetworkNotes; Select Bibliography; Index