When post World War II independence of colonies transferred ownership of State-structure to the colonized elite, electoral and civil society politics battle for capture of this post-colonial State structure. Meanwhile, the State is also forced to build its legitimacy in the face of customary governance practices seeking rehabilitation and de-colonisation in the midst of civil wars and strife. This book fills the gap in literature necessary to foreground discussions of the political nature of post-colonial nation state in examining resistance and provide a window into the dynamics of the post-colonial State and its implication in everyday organising and resistance.
Auteur
Jonathan Murphy works as a scholar and practitioner in the areas of democratic governance and international management. He has led democratic development projects in more than 20 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, and has been a faculty member at Cardiff Business School in Wales as well as the University of Alberta, Canada. Currently, Jonathan is a UN official in Kiev, Ukraine.
Nimruji Jammulamadaka is an associate professor with the organization behaviour group at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta. She is also co-chair of the critical management studies division of the Academy of Management for 2016-2017, and the author of Indian Business: Notions and Practices of Responsibility.
Résumé
Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics to change elections and public policy - sometimes in coercive ways. Using a diverse array of evidence, including national surveys of workers and employers, as well as in-depth interviews with top corporate managers, Politics at Work explains why mobilization of workers has become an appealing corporate political strategy in recent decades. The book also assesses the effect of employer mobilization on the political process more broadly, including its consequences for electoral contests, policy debates, and political representation. In Politics at Work, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez shows that while employer political recruitment has some benefits for American democracy - for instance, getting more workers to the polls - it also has troubling implications for other aspects of political participation. Workers face considerable pressure to respond to their managers' political requests because of the economic power employers possess over workers. In spite of these worrisome patterns, corporate managers report that mobilization of workers is an important strategy for influencing politics. Politics at Work documents how companies consider mobilization of their workers to be even more effective at changing public policy than making campaign contributions or buying electoral ads. Hertel-Fernandez concludes by discussing when and why employer recruitment efforts represent problematic violations of workers' political rights. He then reviews policy proposals that could protect workers from employer political coercion and could also win the support of majorities of Americans. By carefully examining a growing yet underappreciated political practice, Politics at Work contributes to our understanding of the changing workplace, as well as the ways that businesses influence politics in the United States. The book offers fresh perspectives on debates over money in politics and will be valuable to anyone interested in the connections between inequality, public policy, and American democracy.
Contenu
Knowledge Struggles
Corruption's Other Scene: The politics of corruption in South Africa (Ivor Chipkin)
Change and Continuity at Brazilian Development Bank (Paulo Faveret)
Knowledge of Organizational Behavior and Consultancy Projects: A critical examination (Rajiv Kumar)
Legitimacy Challenges
Urban environmental governance and legitimacy of state claim for global climate justice: Dilemma and debates in Bangladesh (Md Khalid Hossain)
'A class war has begun in South Africa': An analysis of COSATU's framing of the 'Marikana massacre' (Teke Ngomba)
Corruption in Local Governance as Resistance: A Post-colonial reading of the Indian state (Arpita Mathur)
Making/Unmaking Governance
Greenpeace and The Transnational Governance of Brazilian Beef Industry (Marcus Vinícius Peinado Gomes and Mário Aquino Alves)
'Donor logic', NGOs, Ruling Elite and the Decolonisation of Education in Bangladesh (Ariful H. Kabir and Raqib Chowdhury)
Democratic Transition in a Post-colonial State: Dialogue and discord in Tunisia's post-revolutionary transition 2011 - 2014 (Jonathan Murphy and Virpi Malin)
Theorising the State (Or Its Absence?) in Anti-Corporate Protest: Insights from Post-colonial India (Nimruji Jammulamadaka and Biswatosh Saha)