Work: Marxist and Systems-Theoretical Approaches

ISBN-13: 9780367728779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 116 str.

Stefan Kühl

Opis

Using Marxist and systems theory as guides, this book engages with current debates on the role of economy in modern society, making particular use of the category of ‘work’ to explore the concepts of ‘work society’, ‘industrial society’ and ‘capitalist society’ and to explain the conditions of society as a whole.

Spis treści

1. Work – Theoretical Perspectives  2. Primacy of Economy vs. Functional Differentiation: The Debate on the Form of Modern Society  3. Business vs. Organization: Subsumising the Company to the Logic of Profit Maximization or Stressing the Self-Logic of the Organization  4. Worker Consciousness vs. Worker Essence as a Role: Class as a Binding Link between Society and the Individual  5. In Favor of a Renaissance of Grand Theories

O autorze

Stefan Kühl is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany and a senior consultant for Metaplan — a consulting firm based in Princeton, Versailles, Hamburg, Shanghai and Singapore. He is the author of Organizations: A Systems Approach; When the Monkeys Run the Zoo: The Pitfalls of Flat Hierarchies; The Sudoku Effect: Universities in the Vicious Circle of Bureaucracy; The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism; For the Betterment of the Race: The Rise and Fall of the International Movement for Eugenics and Racial Hygiene; and Ordinary Organizations: Why Normal Men Carried Out the Holocaust.