The Warping of Government Work

Download or read book The Warping of Government Work written by John D. Donahue and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 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. Donahue documents government’s isolation from the rest of the U.S. economy and arrays the stark choices we confront for narrowing, or accommodating, the divide between public and private work.