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The Warping of Government Work

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Description for The Warping of Government Work Hardback. Documents the government's isolation from the rest of the American economy and arrays the stark choices we confront for narrowing, or accommodating, the divide between public and private work. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 line illustrations, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.

Government has become a refuge, and a relic, of America’s crumbling middle-class economy. As the public and private worlds of work have veered in different directions, the gaps between them are warping government work in unintended ways.

Three decades of economic turbulence have rendered American workplaces more demanding and less secure, more rewarding for high-end workers and punishing for workers without advanced skills. This workplace revolution, however, has largely bypassed government. Public employees—representing roughly one-sixth of the total workforce—still work under the conditions of dampened risk and constrained opportunity that marked most of the economy during the middle-class boom ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674027886
SKU
V9780674027886
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About John D. Donahue
John D. Donahue is Raymond Vernon Lecturer in Public Policy and Director of the Weil Program in Collaborative Governance at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Reviews for The Warping of Government Work
The Warping of Government Work offers an intriguing view of the impact that changes in the private economy have had on both the nature of government jobs and challenges to government performance. This eminently readable book is a significant contribution to discussions about effective government.
Judy Feder, Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University In The Warping of Government Work, ... Read more

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