Category: RECENT READS

• “The Dark Side of Management” by Gerald Hanlon

  

  I knew Gerry Hanlon from my undergrad days at the University of Nottingham. I can’t remember the name of the module but I do remember it as one of my earliest introduction to many classic works I now know inside and out: Braverman’s Labour & Monopoly Capitalism, Burowoy’s Manufacturing Consent and Richard Edwards Contested Terrain…

  martinjamesphd

  26th Jun 2020

  LIBRARY, RECENT READS

• “Why we can’t afford the rich”

  

  My first read of the new era was Andrew Sayer’s exceptional “Why we can’t afford the rich” (Polity Press, 2016). I discovered Sayer’s work when I first became familiar with critical realism, which is now my theoretical toolkit of choice. I love the depth of analysis here, especially the relentless cross-examination of “greed/inequality is good”…

  martinjamesphd

  17th Jun 2020

  RECENT READS