New Spirit of Capitalism

Name: New Spirit of Capitalism
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ISBN: 9781844671656

ISBN-10: 1844671658

ISBN-13: 9781844671656

Edition: 2007

Authors: Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello, Gregory Elliott

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A major study of the organization of contemporary capitalismalready a classic. This major new work examines the structure of capitalism and how it has been reorganized since the 1960s. Via an unprecedented examination of management texts the authors find that employers are using the language of 1968 counterculture to drive through new work practices and more successful and subtle forms of exploitation. They argue that from the middle of the 1970s onwards, capitalism abandoned the hierarchical Fordist work structure and developed a network-based form of organization that was founded on employee initiative and autonomy in the workplacea 'freedom' that came at the cost of material and…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 9/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 601
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.33" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Eve Chiapello is an associate professor at the HEC School of Management, Paris. She is the author of Artistes versus Managers .



Preface to the English Edition


Acknowledgements


Prologue


General Introduction: On the Spirit of Capitalism and the Role of Critique



The Emergence of a New Ideological Configuration



Management Discourse in the 1990s



The Formation of the Projective City



The Transformation of Capitalism and the Neutralization of Critique



1968: Crisis and Revival of Capitalism



Dismantling the World of Work



Undermining the Defences of the world of Work



The New Spirit of Capitalism and the New Forms of Critique



The Revival of the Social Critique



The Test of the Artistic Critique


Conclusion: The Force of Critique


Postscript: Sociology Contra Fatalism


Appendices


Bibliography


Name Index


Subject Index