Bureaucratic Manoeuvres

John Grundy is Faculty Awards Specialist in the College of Engineering at Purdue University.

• Introduction1. Conceptualizing the Limits of Activation Policy2. "More Than a Placement Service": The Transient High Modernism of "Manpower" Planning, 1965–763. Making and Unmaking Frontline Professionalism, 1977–904. Within Reach of the "What Works Best Solution": Evidence-Based Activation, 1994–20005. Toward a Culture of Results, 1996–2000 ConclusionsAppendix A: List of Acronyms Appendix B: List of Interviews

"Grundy’s patient empiricism could be put to good use in classrooms to critically explore with students the circulation of particular orientations or sensibilities through institutions and cultures over time, and to bring home the importance of taking a long view on where we are within longer histories of problematization and intervention. The readability of the book also recommends it for classroom use. Overall, Bureaucratic Manoeuvers makes an important and interesting contribution to social and employment policy and related studies in the Canadian context, and to comparative policy studies more broadly. I highly recommend it."- Tina Wilson (Critical Social Policy)