People or Personnel is a critique of centralized power written by Paul Goodman and published by Random House in 1965.
 First edition | |
| Author | Paul Goodman |
|---|---|
| Subject | Sociology |
| Published | 1965 (Random House) |
| Pages | 247 |
| OCLC | 918343863 |
| LC Class | HN58 G66 |
An essay on anarchism in management described the book as being demonstrative of the "practical anarchism" epoch of the 1960s and 1970s.[1]
Publication
editSome of the book's writing originated in his notes for a seminar in urban affairs at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.[2] These "Notes on Decentralization" were published in Dissent in 1964, republished in his 1977 expanded edition of Drawing the Line, and appeared in other edited volumes.[3]
Random House published People or Personnel: Decentralizing and the Mixed System in 1965.[4] Its appendices contain five previously published articles: "Getting into Power" (Liberation, 1962); "Avoiding Responsibility" (previously "The Establishment as a Moral Illegitimate" in Village Voice, 1964); "A New Deal for the Arts" (Commentary, 1964); "Engaged Editing" (his preface to Seeds of Liberation, 1964); and "An Example of Spontaneous Administration" (previously "Columbia's Unorthodox Seminars" in Harper's, 1964).[5] This edition also includes three public memoranda as appendices: to the Poverty Program, the Office of Education, and the Ford Foundation.[4] The aforementioned articles refer to his then-forthcoming book on decentralization by different titles, including Ways of Running Things and Decentralizing and the Mixed System.[6]
Sections of the book were later reprinted in Frank Tannenbaum's A Community of Scholars: The University Seminars at Columbia (1965), Ronald Gross and Paul Osterman's Individualism: Man in Modern Society (1971), and Liberation magazine.[7] The book's first chapter, originally published as "On Some Prima Facie Objections to Decentralism" (Liberation, 1964), was condensed and reprinted in the 1966 edited volume Patterns of Anarchy.[8] People or Personnel's manuscripts and galley proof are held in Syracuse University's special collections.[4]
Vintage Books published a dual paperback edition in February 1968 combining People or Personnel with Like a Conquered Province, adding additional republished essays for the latter's appendices.[4]
Reception
editPeople or Personnel is among Goodman's best known works of social criticism.[9]
References
edit- ^ Wierman, Brian; Granter, Edward; McCann, Leo (2020). "Anarchy in Management Today". In Parker, Martin; Stoborod, Konstantin; Swann, Thomas (eds.). Anarchism, Organization and Management: Critical Perspectives for Students. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-69835-1.
- ^ Nicely 1979, p. 95.
- ^ Nicely 1979, pp. 95, 171.
- ^ a b c d Nicely 1979, p. 105.
- ^ Nicely 1979, pp. 83, 92, 96, 97, 105.
- ^ Nicely 1979, pp. 97, 95.
- ^ Nicely 1979, pp. 106, 107, 157–158.
- ^ Nicely 1979, pp. 95, 113.
- ^ Nicely 1979, p. 2.
Bibliography
edit- Nicely, Tom (1979). Adam and His Work: A Bibliography of Sources by and about Paul Goodman (1911–1972). Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-1219-2. OCLC 4832535.
Further reading
edit- Barnard, Roger (February 1, 1973). "Goodman Observed". New Society. Vol. 23, no. 539. pp. 251–252. ISSN 0028-6729.
- Beichman, Arnold (September 2, 1965). "Bucking the System (Rev. of People or Personnel)". Christian Science Monitor. p. 7. ISSN 0882-7729.
- Bliven, Naomi (August 21, 1965). "Books: To Set our People Free". The New Yorker. pp. 124–127. ISSN 0028-792X. EBSCOhost 23273815.
- Brower, Brock (June 20, 1965). "Wanted: Less Centralization (Rev. of People or Personnel by Paul Goodman)". The New York Times Book Review. p. BR6. ISSN 0362-4331.
- Davids, Leo (1970). "Rev. of People or Personnel and Like a Conquered Province". International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 11 (1): 73–75. doi:10.1163/156854270X00075. ISSN 0020-7152.
- Epstein, Joseph (June 5, 1965). "Intellectualism in American Life". The New Republic. pp. 21–23. ISSN 0028-6583.
- Goodman, Paul (1968). "Notes on Decentralization". In Kostelanetz, Richard (ed.). Beyond Left & Right: Radical Thought for Our Times. New York: Morrow. pp. 387–. OCLC 442456.
- Green, Philip (1965). "Overorganized and Overroutinized". Dissent. pp. 511–514. ISSN 0012-3846.
- Hassenger, Robert (August 28, 1965). "Rev. of People or Personnel by Paul Goodman". America. 113: 222–223. ISSN 0002-7049.
- Harrington, Michael (August 1965). "On Paul Goodman". The Atlantic Monthly. Vol. 216. pp. 88–91. ISSN 1072-7825.
- Heilbroner, Robert L. (May 6, 1965). "Utopia or Bust". The New York Review of Books. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
- Lasch, Christopher (November 1965). "Getting out of Power (Rev. of People or Personnel)". Commentary. pp. 116–124. ISSN 0010-2601.
- Letwin, Shirley Robin (March 3, 1973). "Shirley Robin Letwin on the hero of the Beat Generation (Book Review)". The Spectator. Vol. 230, no. 7549. pp. 266–267. ISSN 0038-6952 – via ProQuest.
- "Jeremiah U.S.A. (Rev. of People or Personnel)". Newsweek. Vol. 65. April 12, 1965. pp. 113C–114. ISSN 0028-9604.
- Krim, Seymour (June 20, 1965). "Calling in a Deficiency Expert (Rev. of People or Personnel)". Book Week. 2 (41): 3, 11. ISSN 0524-059X.
- Woodcock, George (May 1967). "Rev. of People or Personnel and The Moral Ambiguity of America". Our Generation. 5 (1): 116–121. ISSN 0030-686X.
