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Wild, A (2002) "False coherence" and "cohesive fragmentation" in construction's post-war corporatism 1945-70. In: Greenwood, D (Ed.), Proceedings 18th Annual ARCOM Conference, 2-4 September 2002, Northumbria, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Vol. 2, 729–38.
- Type: Conference Proceedings
- Keywords: co-ordination; corporatism; managerialism; ministry; reorganization
- ISBN/ISSN: 0 9534161 7 8
- URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/ar2002-729-738_Wild.pdf
- Abstract:
The paper reviews the institutional framework of construction, its practices of corporatist co-ordination and the managerialist re-organization of the Ministry of Public Building and Works (MPBW) until 1970 from government reports and other publications. The interpretation of reports and their contexts are related to the state of construction’s managerialism, which reflects the indeterminacy and instability of construction. The nine reports from 1962 to 1967 imply "a general crisis of construction" partly induced by the emergence of active planning through NEDC. This is reflected in a complex managerial restructuring of MPBW construction’s sponsoring ministry, which sought better co-ordination of the public client. It is argued that public policy was aspirational: hoping that construction would assist economic growth by yielding to the current managerialism and failed to distinguish the roles of government as client, sponsor and economic planner.