The Competent Public Sphere: Global Political Economy, Dialogue and the Contemporary Workplace

by John Michael Roberts, David M. Levine, Mervyn Peake, et al.

Suggesting that an expressive ideology has arisen within the workplace public sphere around the theme of 'competence', this book explores the hegemony of global finance and the fetishism of the new economy, exposing the dilemmas of the competence agenda, and illustrating how competence is played out in the workplace public sphere.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230008739
• ISBN13: 9780230008731
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"