Contesting the Corporation: Struggle, Power and
Resistance in Organizations
Peter Fleming, Judge Business School, Cambridge
André Spicer, University of Warwick
ISBN-13: 9780521860864
In an age when large corporations dominate the
economic and political landscape, it is tempting to
think that their power goes largely unchecked.
Contesting the Corporation counters this view by
showing that today's corporations are driven by
political struggle, power plays and attempts to resist
control. Building on a wide range of theoretical
sources, Fleming and Spicer present an analysis of the
different ways in which power operates within the
modern workplace. They begin by building a theoretical
perspective that synthesizes previous investigations
of power and resistance, identifying struggle as a key
concept. Each subsequent chapter illustrates a
different dimension of workplace struggle through an
array of original empirical studies relating to
sexuality, cynicism, new social movements and new-wave
trade unionism.
The book concludes by demonstrating that social
justice claims underlie even the most innocuous forms
of resistance, helping to transform some of the
largest modern corporations.
Contents
Acknowledgements; Introduction: prisons, playgrounds
and parliaments; 1. Faces of power in organizations;
2. Faces of resistance at work; 3.
Struggle in organizations; 4. Dis-identification and
resentment: the case of cynicism; 5. De-sexualizing
work and the struggle for desire; 6.
Displacement and struggle: space, life and labour; 7.
Discursive
struggle: the case of globalization in the public
sector; 8. Struggles for justice: wharfies, queers and
capitalists; 9. Struggles for common ground in
organizations; Conclusion; Notes; References.
Further Information:
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521860864
Sample Chapters:
http://andre.spicer.googlepages.com/ContestingtheCorporationsample.pdf
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André Spicer
Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour
Warwick Business School
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Andre.Spicer@wbs.ac.uk
+44 (0)24 7652 4513
http://andre.spicer.googlepages.com/home
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