{"product_id":"warping-of-government-work-john-d-donahue-9780674027886","title":"The Warping of Government Work","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John D. Donahue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674027884\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674027886\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.48w x 0.82d","brand":"John D. Donahue","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43946900390143,"sku":"9780674027886","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1fb7d451-14cb-47cc-bf59-d9cf90b3457a.jpg?v=1681515668","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/warping-of-government-work-john-d-donahue-9780674027886","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}