CURRENT READ
Considered to be one of the strongest texts on the thoroughly dubunked neo-liberal economic model we continue to be stuck with.
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…
“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”…
NEW AQUISITIONS
“White Collar” & “The Power Elite”
I’m very happy to add these classics to my library. C. Wright Mills was a great sociologist, a particularly bright star in a golden age of American organisational analysis. The observations in “White Collar” resonate 70 years on, which is an apt reminder of how continuity prevails over change. I am less familiar with “The…
“The View from Goffman”
I’m excited to have received this collection of essays edited by Jason Ditton today, who himself was the author of some of the best organisational studies of his time. “Part Time Crime” and “Controlology” remain under-appreciated masterpieces in my view. Regardless, I believe this to be the first collection of Goffman essays compiled (back in…
Dr Martin James 