{"product_id":"the-ungovernable-society-a-genealogy-of-authoritarian-liberalism-paperback-softback-9781509542017","title":"The Ungovernable Society; A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509542017","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Ungovernable Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGrégoire Chamayou (Author), Andrew Brown (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509542017, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 March 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e350 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 15 x 2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A comprehensive account, both historical and systematic, of how and why in the 1970s business began to perceive democratic capitalism as ungovernable, and what it tried to do about this: from corporate reform to strengthening the state while weakening democracy. The book adds importantly to our understanding of the neoliberal revolution, its origins and objectives, successes and failures.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWolfgang Streeck, Emeritus Director and Senior Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Grégoire Chamayou provides a dazzling and wide-ranging genealogy of the intellectual ideas and political strategies which were used to undermine democracy and roll back the economic security and greater equality of the post-war years. An original and rewarding read.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Gamble, SPERI, University of Sheffield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e‘With this elegant and important work, Chamayou will surely succeed in bringing out your inner critic of the powers that be.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrench Culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was left untouched – the relation between the sexes, the racial order, the hierarchies of class, relationships in families, workplaces and colleges. The upheavals of the late 1960s and early 1970s quickly spread through all sectors of social and economic life, threatening to make society ungovernable. This crisis was also the birthplace of the authoritarian liberalism which continues to cast its shadow across the world in which we now live.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo ward off the threat, new arts of government were devised by elites in business-related circles, which included a war against the trade unions, the primacy of shareholder value and a dethroning of politics. The neoliberalism that thus began its triumphal march was not, however, determined by a simple ‘state phobia’ and a desire to free up the economy from government interference. On the contrary, the strategy for overcoming the crisis of governability consisted in an authoritarian liberalism in which the liberalization of society went hand-in-hand with new forms of power imposed from above: a ‘strong state’ for a ‘free economy’ became the new magic formula of our capitalist societies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe new arts of government devised by ruling elites are still with us today and we can understand their nature and lasting influence only by re-examining the history of the conflicts that brought them into being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTable of contents:Introduction   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Indocile workers\u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003e Chapter One. Indiscipline on the shop floor \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two. Human resources     \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three. Social insecurity \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four. War on the unions  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part Two. Managerial revolution  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five. A theological crisis    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Six. Ethical managerialism    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Seven. Disciplining the managers    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Eight. Catallarchy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part Three. Attack on free enterprise \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Nine. Private government under siege\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Ten. The battle of ideas \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Eleven. How to react?    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Twelve. The corporation does not exist\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Thirteen. Police theories of the firm    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part Four. A world of protesters\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Fourteen. Corporate counter-activism\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Fifteen. The production of the dominant dialogy\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Sixteen. Issue management     \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Seventeen. Stakeholders  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part Five. New regulations \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Eighteen. Soft law \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Nineteen. Costs\/benefits \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Twenty. A critique of political ecology\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Twenty-One. Making people responsible\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part Six. The ungovernable state\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Twenty-Two. The crisis of governability of the democracies          \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Twenty-Three. Hayek in Chile  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Twenty-Four. The sources of authoritarian     liberalism      \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Twenty-Five. Dethroning politics\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Twenty-Six. The micropolitics of privatization\u003cbr\u003e                       \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e                        \u003cbr\u003e Notes      \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52470043902232,"sku":"9781509542017","price":17.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509542017.jpg?v=1785629793","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-ungovernable-society-a-genealogy-of-authoritarian-liberalism-paperback-softback-9781509542017","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}