Creating the New Worker
Work, Consumption and Subordination
1st Edition
Published on 8. September 2018
XV, 408 pages
978-3-319-93260-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Combining a Gramscian critique of contemporary patterns of capitalist labour control with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Durand examines what kinds of human beings are emerging in and through modern work, or on its margins.
Creating the New Worker will be of interest to students and scholars who engage in the sociology and psychology of work, economics, and labour.
Combining a Gramscian critique of contemporary patterns of capitalist labour control with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Durand examines what kinds of human beings are emerging in and through modern work, or on its margins.
Creating the New Worker will be of interest to students and scholars who engage in the sociology and psychology of work, economics, and labour.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XV, 408 p. 5 illus., 2 illus. in color.
File size
3,04 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-319-93260-6 (9783319932606)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-93260-6
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
09/2018
Palgrave Macmillan
€80.24
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Person
Jean-Pierre Durand is Professor of Sociology at Université d'Evry Paris-Saclay, France, and Editor-founder of
La Nouvelle Revue du
Travail.
Content
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.
