The Politics of Public Work:: A Theory Of Public Work and Labor Struggle

Abstract

There are few ideas more broadly and deeply fixed than that state and capital, public and private sectors, politics and markets are two alternative modes of organizing society in general and production in particular. Despite this, in both social theory and practice, our notions of work and labor struggle are drawn almost exclusively from the private sector. We have a great body of literature on struggle within and against private sector production relations-theories of the private sector labor movement. On the other hand, our stock of theories of public work and labor struggle is surprisingly underdeveloped.

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