@article{1479316,
      recid = {1479316},
      author = {Donahue, John D., },
      title = {The Warping of Government Work /},
      pages = {1 online resource (224 p.)},
      abstract = {Government 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. Three 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. The  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. The Warping of  Government Work 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479316},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674272088},
}