ABSTRACT
Management, as one of the modern sciences of control, appears to be the opposite of a political movement which seeks the absence of government, which insists on personal and collective freedom and rejects the authority of the state and other centralized, dominating institutions. Most management textbooks, consultants and business magazines tell a story about the rise of management as pretty much the same as human progress. Management has a habit of doing this–taking various forms of thought and cultural references and then using them to rebrand cliches about leadership, marketing, careers or whatever. Unlike much management theory, which often suggests that there is ‘best practice,’ anarchists are usually happy enough with difference, acknowledging that there might be different anarchisms for different times or forms of organizing which will work at different scales or in different places. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
