“Making coin” and the networker: Masculine self‐making in the Australian professional managerial class

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owen McNamara
Keyword(s):  
Managerial Class

scholarly journals Teaching the Professions

2014 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 69-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey J. Williams
Keyword(s):  
American Novel ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Managerial Class ◽  
History And Theory

This essay argues that we should teach the professions. The author discusses in particular teaching the rise of the modern professions in conjunction with the development of the Anglo-American novel through the Victorian, modern, and contemporary periods. He also suggests readings from the history and theory of professions, showing how they build a fuller portrait of both the literature and the theory. Teaching the professions is a useful way to examine class. It also opens a way to look at the precarious condition of the professional managerial class today.

Babylonian Priesthood during the Third Millennium BCE: Between Sacred and Profane

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 112-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Steinkeller
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Small Segment ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sacred And Profane ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Third Millennium Bce ◽  
City State ◽  
The City ◽  
Managerial Class

Abstract This article offers an overview of the early Babylonian priesthood, as it was organized and operated during the third millennium BCE. It is emphasized that the priests and priestesses proper, i.e., individuals who were specifically concerned with cultic matters, represented a relatively small segment of the employees of temple households. Much more numerous within these institutions (which might more appropriately be termed “temple communities”) were the individuals whose roles were of either administrative or economic character. Focusing on the administrators of temple households, and identifying them as “Managerial Class,” the article argues that, during Pre-Sargonic times, this social group wielded great economic and political power, which at times even exceeded that of the emerging secular leaders (such as ensiks and lugals). To demonstrate this point, an interaction between these two competing centers of powers (particularly in the city-state of Lagaš) is studied in detail. In memory of Itamar Singer

Private study

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-52
Author(s):  
Thomas Docherty
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Intellectual Work ◽  
Critical Position ◽  
Normative Force ◽  
University Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The University ◽  
Managerial Class

The rise of the managerial class has effected a fundamental reversal of priorities in the university sector, such that faculty now exist primarily in order to serve the demands of management as such. With managerial jargon in the ascendancy, political argument about the nature of the sector falls into cliché; and cliché precludes the yielding of any knowledge that is based in thinking, because it reduces thought to prejudicial clichéd banalities. Inn this state of affairs, there can be little legitimacy for a critical position that might challenge the supposed primacy of economic rationalisation of all aspects of university life and of knowledge. The result is that the privatisation of knowledge and the attendant commercialisation of information assumes a normative force. The university is complicit with a general political trajectory that leads to the corruption of politics and of intellectual work through the improper insertion of financial rationales for all decision-making. The chapter explores the pre-history of this in Thatcherism and Reaganomics; and it demonstrates that the logic of university privatization is essentially a state-sponsored subsidy for the wealthy, and for the ongoing protection of existing privileges.

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