McMurray Robert - Power, Politics and Exclusion in Organization and Management

Power, Politics and Exclusion in Organization and Management

There is a long tradition of research on politics, power and exclusion in areas such as sociology, social policy, politics, womens studies and philosophy. While power has received considerable attention in mainstream management research and teaching, it is rarely considered in terms of politics and exclusion, particularly where the work of women writers is concerned.

This second book in the Routledge Series on Women Writers in Organization Studies analyses the ways in which women have theorised and embodied relations of power. Women like Edith Garrud who, trained in the Japanese art of jujutsu, confronted the power of the state to champion feminist politics. Others, such as Beatrice Webb and Alva Myrdal, are shown to have been at the heart of welfare reforms and social justice movements that responded to the worst excesses of industrialisation based on considerations of class and gender. The writing of bell hooks provides a necessarily uncomfortable account of the ways in which imperialism, white supremacy and patriarchy inflict unspoken harm, while Hannah Arendts work considers the ways in which different modes of organizing restrict the ability of people to live freely. Taken together, such writings dispel the myth that work or business can be separated from the rest of life, a point driven home by Rosabeth Moss Kanters observations on the ways in which power and inequality differentially structure life chances. These writers challenge us to think again about power, politics and exclusion in organizational contexts. They provide provocative thinking, which opens up new avenues for organization theory, practice and social activism.

Each woman writer is introduced and analysed by experts in organization studies. Further reading and accessible resources are also identified for those interested in knowing (thinking!) more. This book will be relevant to students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in business and management, organizational studies, critical management studies, gender studies and sociology. Like all the books in this series, it will also be interest to anyone who wants to see, think and act differently.

Robert McMurray is Professor of Work and Organization at The York Management School, UK. His research interests include the organization of health care, professions, emotion labour, dirty work and visual methods. Other collaborative book projects include The Dark Side of Emotional Labour (2015), The Management of Wicked Problems in Health and Social Care (2018) and Urban Portraits (2017).

Alison Pullen is Professor of Management and Organization Studies at Macquarie University, Australia and Editor-in-Chief of Gender, Work and Organization . Alisons research has been concerned with analysing and intervening in the politics of work as it concerns gender discrimination, identity politics and organizational injustice.

Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Organization Studies

Given that women and men have always engaged in and thought about organizing, why is it that core management texts are dominated by the writing of men? This series redresses the neglect of women in organization thought and practice and highlights their contributions. Through a selection of carefully curated short-form books, it covers major themes such as structure, rationality, managing, leading, culture, power, ethics, diversity and sustainability; and also attends to contemporary debates surrounding performativity, the body, emotion, materiality and post-coloniality. Individually, each book provides stand-alone coverage of a key sub-area within organization studies, with a contextual series introduction written by the editors. Collectively, the titles in the series give a global overview of how women have shaped organizational thought.

Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Organization Studies will be relevant to students and researchers across business and management, organizational studies, critical management studies, gender studies and sociology.

Beyond Rationality in Organization and Management

Edited by Robert McMurray and Alison Pullen

Power, Politics and Exclusion in Organization and Management

Edited by Robert McMurray and Alison Pullen

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Power, Politics and Exclusion in Organization and Management

Edited by
Robert McMurray and Alison Pullen

First published 2019

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Contents

Robert McMurray and Alison Pullen

Simon Kelly

David Jacobs and Rosetta Morris

Louise Wallenberg and Torkild Thanem

Deborah N Brewis and Lara Pecis

Peter Bloom

Helena Liu

This series arose from the question: given that women and men have always engaged in, and thought about, organizing, why are core management texts dominated by the writing of men? Relatedly, and centrally to the development of organization studies as a field, the following questions become central: why do so few women theorists and writers appear in our lectures and classes on managing, organizing and working? Why have the contributions of women to organization theory been neglected and, indeed, written out of the everyday conversations of the academy?

This series redresses the neglect of women in organization thought and practice. It does so by highlighting the unique contributions of women in respect to fundamental organizational issues such as structure, rationality, managing, leading, culture, power, ethics, diversity and sustainability, while also attending to more nuanced organizational concerns arising from issues such as performativity, the body, emotion, materiality and post-coloniality.

Through a selection of carefully curated short-form books, the series provides an overview of how women have shaped organizational thought. It is international in scope, drawing on ideas, concepts, experiences and writing from across Europe, North America and Australasia, and spanning more than 150 years. As the series develops, our ambition is to move beyond even these confines to encompass the work of women from all parts of the globe.