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Audit culture : how indicators and rankings are reshaping the world /

All aspects of our work and private lives are increasingly measured and managed. But how has this 'audit culture' arisen and what kind of a world is it producing? Cris Shore and Susan Wright provide a timely account of the rise of the new industries of accounting, enumeration and ranking f...

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Main Authors: Shore, Cris, 1959- (Author)
Group Author: Wright, Susan, 1951-
Published: Pluto Press,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2024.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Anthropology, culture and society
Subjects:
Social indicators.
Social accounting.
Anthropology > Statistical methods.
Work environment.
Work measurement.
Indicateurs sociaux.
Travail > Mesure.
Summary: All aspects of our work and private lives are increasingly measured and managed. But how has this 'audit culture' arisen and what kind of a world is it producing? Cris Shore and Susan Wright provide a timely account of the rise of the new industries of accounting, enumeration and ranking from an anthropological perspective, drawing on political economy, ethnographic observation and genealogical excavation.
Carrier Form: xiv, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-218) and index.
ISBN: 9780745336459
0745336450
9780745336350
0745336353
Index Number: HN25
CLC: C913
Call Number: C913/S559-1

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