Creating the New Worker: Work, Consumption and Subordination

ISBN-13: 9783319932590 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 408 str.

Jean-Pierre Durand

Opis

This book explores the relationship between the changing nature of capitalism and the creation of the new worker. In a changing global economy, work - as the activity that structures individuals in capitalism both socially and psychologically - is being undermined.

Spis treści

1. Introduction.- 2. Lean Management: The Invisible Revolution.- 3. The New Worker: Fractured Identities and Denied Recognition.- 4. The New Worker Dispossessed of Work.- 5. The New Worker in Service Activities.- 6. The Impossible Rationalisation of Service Activities.- 7. Two Scenarios for the Future.- 8. Conclusion: What Comes After Work. 

O autorze

Jean-Pierre Durand is Professor of Sociology at Université d’Evry Paris-Saclay, France, and Editor-founder of La Nouvelle Revue du Travail.