Comments on: Big Society? Big deal http://www.redpepper.org.uk/big-society-big-deal/ Red Pepper Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Andy Benson http://www.redpepper.org.uk/big-society-big-deal/#comment-5076 Andy Benson Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:26:05 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=3158#comment-5076 Nice one Richard, says it like it is. I’d add one further important point which is that the service-providing voluntary agencies have been caught in a pincer movement between the suits in the government and the shiny suits in the private sector. The result has been a widespread adoption of management styles and working methods that vandalise one of the hallmarks of the best of voluntary action – democratic, non-hierarchical, and respectful structures and cultures. That’s why one of our priority campaigns is to help people fight ‘new managerialism’ – see http://www.independentaction.net/?page_id=5873 for more on what we’re banging on about here….

Andy Benson
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