Randy Martin: Under New Management

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A balanced review of the changing nature of the corporate university<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439906958&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="2155_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Under New Management</h1> <H2>Universities, Administrative Labor, and the Professional Turn</H2> <h3>Randy Martin</h3> <P>cloth 1-4399-0695-5 $75.50, Jun 11, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>paper 1-4399-0696-3 $31.95, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-4399-0697-1 $31.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 272 pp 6x9 1 table </P><h3 align="center"><P><font color="#996633">Randy Martin is the recipient of the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015</font></P> </H3> <BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Randy Martin�s </I>Under New Management<I> offers a very timely and highly impassioned exploration of the labor of administering the university. Through this discussion of the place of the university within broader political-economic trends, </I>Under New Management<I> makes an important contribution to theorizing the role of education in contemporary affairs. Martin�s book is filled with fascinating theoretical insights and interesting case studies, but it is the project�s investigation of the potential for working management against the grain that makes it a particularly important and innovative intervention."</I><BR>&#151<B>Ashley Dawson</B>, Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York</I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>Faculty members who care about the institutions of higher education where they work are often at odds with university management. In his forceful book, Randy Martin takes a novel, evenhanded approach to this gulf between professors, who feel a loss of autonomy, and administrators, who face a panoply of institutional risks. </p> <p>Martin imagines a political future for academic labor based on a critical understanding of the administrative work that faculty members already undertake. He considers the differences between self-rule and specialized expertise and provides a case study of a New York City public school to show how schoolchildren and families respond to the demands of managerial productivity that is part of preparing students for college. <em>Under New Management</em> also considers changes that students, faculty, and administrators face in light of this reworked social compact of professionals.</p> <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><I>"Martin�s highly original book features a sociological and ethnographic sensibility that sets it apart. </I>Under New Management<I> is a tour de force, turning the university back upon itself to discover the associated labor that summons managerialism. This is a timely book that could develop a real popularity among students, staff, and academics active in various struggles in the global university today." </I><br>&#151<b>Stefano Harney</b>, Professor and Chair in Strategy, Culture and Society at the University of London <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Preface <br> Acknowledgments<br> 1. The Ends of Education <br> 2. Getting There<br> 3. What Is A Student to Think?<br> 4. W(h)ither Academic Freedom? Revaluing Faculty Work<br> 5. The Work of Administration<br> 6. Conditions of Interdisciplinarity<br> 7. Registering Organization<br> 8. (Out) from Under New Management<br> Notes<br> Index</p> </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><strong>Randy Martin</strong> (1957�2015) was Professor and Chair of Art and Public Policy at New York University. He has published, as author or editor, a dozen books, including <em>An Empire of Indifference: American War and the Financial Logic of Risk Management</em>, and <em><a href="1615_reg.html" target="_top">Financialization of Daily Life</a></em> (Temple).</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/education.html" TARGET="_top">Education</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/sociology.html" TARGET="_top">Sociology</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/american.html" TARGET="_top">American Studies</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439906958&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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