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The Competent Public Sphere

Global Political Economy, Dialogue and the Contemporary Workplace

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. John Michael Roberts

    1. Brunel University, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introducing Competence and the Public Sphere

    • John Michael Roberts
    Pages 1-17

  3. The New Economy

    • John Michael Roberts
    Pages 18-28

  4. The New Economy as the Fetish of Financialisation

    • John Michael Roberts
    Pages 29-67

  5. The Competent Public Sphere of the New Economy

    • John Michael Roberts
    Pages 68-88

  6. Democracy and Participation in the Competent Public Sphere

    • John Michael Roberts
    Pages 89-108

  7. Silencing the Thematic Utterances of Workers

    • John Michael Roberts
    Pages 109-127

  8. Trade Unions, Participation, and the Proletarian Public Sphere

    • John Michael Roberts
    Pages 128-150

  9. Conclusion: Towards a Socialist Public Sphere

    • John Michael Roberts
    Pages 151-179

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 180-204
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Suggesting that an expressive ideology has arisen within the workplace public sphere around the theme of 'competence', this book explores the hegemony of global finance and the fetishism of the new economy, exposing the dilemmas of the competence agenda, and illustrating how competence is played out in the workplace public sphere.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Brunel University, UK

    John Michael Roberts

About the author

JOHN MICHAEL ROBERTS is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communication at Brunel University, UK. He has researched and written about the public sphere, free speech, voluntary activity and social theory. His previous publications include The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere; Realism, Discourse and Deconstruction (co-edited) and After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere (co-edited).

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