{"product_id":"the-warping-of-government-work-9780674027886","title":"The Warping of Government Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John D. Donahue\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political Economy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGovernment has become a refuge, and a relic, of America's crumbling middle-class economy. As the public and private worlds of work have veered in different directions, the gaps between them are warping government work in unintended ways. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThree decades of economic turbulence have rendered American workplaces more demanding and less secure, more rewarding for high-end workers and punishing for workers without advanced skills. This workplace revolution, however, has largely bypassed government. Public employees--representing roughly one-sixth of the total workforce--still work under the conditions of dampened risk and constrained opportunity that marked most of the economy during the middle-class boom following World War II. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe divergent paths of public and private employment have intensified a long-standing pattern: elite workers spurn public jobs, while less skilled workers cling to government work as a refuge from a harsh private economy. The first trend creates a chronic talent deficit in the public sector. The second trend makes the government workplace rigid and resistant to change. And both contribute to shortfalls in public-sector performance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Warping of Government Work\u003c\/i\u003e documents government's isolation from the rest of the American economy and arrays the stark choices we confront for narrowing, or accommodating, the divide between public and private work.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47611586281623,"sku":"9780674027886","price":6260.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780674027886.webp?v=1775071617","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-warping-of-government-work-9780674027886","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}