The Mythology of Work

Reviews / Votes

'Thought-provoking.' (Business Book of the Week) -- The Times 'The practical lesson from Fleming's provocation is to ask ourselves how much of the work we do every day is simply posturing and bad habit.' -- Financial Times 'Highly recommended.' -- CHOICE 'Fleming's analysis of work critically confronts today's capitalism, now well into its shift from old centres to new, lower-wage centres. The resulting precarity, scarcity, and mindlessness of work imposed on the old centers is being covered with an ideological fetishisation of work that this book deconstructs well.' -- Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 'Fleming has established himself as the foremost critic of our generation on the pervasive and pernicious ideologies of business.' -- Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education, Singapore Management University 'Acerbic, darkly humorous ... an entertaining read' -- Kate Hardy, Times Higher Education 'Doesn't just paint a bleak portrait of modern life under late capitalism: it also holds that notions of the dignity of labour in the 21st century have become redundant, a joke.' -- Peter Murphy, the Irish Times 'I very much enjoyed reading this book. It draws upon a wide range of critical theory, especially Marx, Nietzsche, Adorno, Foucault, Negri, Certeau, and Deleuze and Guattari, in order to achieve a powerful critique of capitalist work' -- Sociology