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This book offers a new interpretation of socialism and its failure in the last century, and takes on the conventional view that socialist China and other Soviet-type societies represented the domination of bureaucracy. Using a wealth of original archival sources, interview data, and comparative material, Eddy U argues that these societies were not bureaucratic enough. The ruling regimes established a form of workplace administration that is the antithesis of modern bureaucratic organization. Because the workplace lacked rational rules and practices, Soviet-type societies were marred by technical inefficiency, political resentment, and social friction. But U does not merely expose workplace disorganization in Soviet-type societies; his theoretically and empirically grounded research raises questions about the contention that socialism has been proven unworkable. He concludes that strengthening the rational capacity of the state may still be the key to improving social and economic justice.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political ideologies

• Full title: Disorganizing China
• Subtitle: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism
• Author: Eddy U
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780804756891
• ISBN: 0804756899
• ID: 04718319
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 531 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. June 2007

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