Going Public: Women and Publishing in Early Modern France / Edition 1

by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, Dena Goodman

Overview

The public sector currently employs around 40 percent of all union members in the United States. Pressures for cost-effective and quality government services have placed new demands on the labor-management relationship. A fluctuating set of expectations about the appropriate responsibilities of government and a shifting political culture are severely testing the ability of the public sector to meet demands for increased accountability and expanded services.Especially in an age of knowledge workers, the traditional division between labor and management regarding leadership and work may no longer be viable. Going Public examines the forces affecting labor and management and the prospects for adopting service-oriented cooperative relationships as a key strategy for meeting the expanded demands on the public sector.Contributors: Robert R. Albright, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Lorenzo Bordogna, University of Milan; Jonathan Brock, University of Washington; John F. Burton Jr., Rutgers University; Adrienne E. Eaton, Rutgers University; Stephen Goldsmith, Harvard University; Jeffrey H. Keefe, Rutgers University; Charles Kerchner, Claremont Graduate School; David B. Lipsky, Cornell University; Martin H. Malin, Chicago-Kent College of Law; Marick F. Masters, University of Pittsburgh; Sonia Ospina, New York University; Terry Thomason, University of Rhode Island; Robert M. Tobias, American University; Paula B. Voos, Rutgers University; Allon Yaroni, New York University

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801429514
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	12/15/1995
Series:	Reading Women Writing
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Dena Goodman is Lila Miller Collegiate Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment and Criticism in Action: Enlightenment Experiments in Political Writing, both from Cornell, and the editor or coeditor of several other books including, most recently, Furnishing the Eighteenth Century.

Editorial Reviews

The contribution of Going Public is in its identification of the source of tensions between the rhetoric and (limited) practice of labor-management co-operation in the United States and the reality of its political and legal barriers.

Journal of Industrial Relations - Bernadine van Gramberg

This collection of essays addresses two major issues regarding Old Regime France: the nature of the public sphere and the status of women.... Their generally high quality and common focus make them an indispensable secondary source for scholars interested in the intersection of the two zones of contestation explored in this book.

Eighteenth-Century Studies - Thomas E. Kaiser

"This collection of essays addresses two major issues regarding Old Regime France: the nature of the public sphere and the status of women. . . . Their generally high quality and common focus make them an indispensable secondary source for scholars interested in the intersection of the two zones of contestation explored in this book."—Thomas E. Kaiser, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Fall 1997

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