There was once a time when ‘work’ was inextricably linked to survival and self-preservation; where the farmer ploughed the land so their family could eat. But the sun has long since set on this idyllic tableau, and what was once an integral part of life has slowly morphed into a painful and meaningless ritual, colonising almost every part of our lives – endless and inescapable.
In The Mythology of Work, Peter Fleming examines how neoliberal society uses the ritual of work (and the threat of its denial) to maintain the late capitalist class order. As our society is transformed into a factory that never sleeps, work becomes a universal reference point for everything else, devoid of any moral or political worth.
Blending critical theory with recent accounts of job related suicides, office-induced paranoia, fear of relaxation, managerial sadism and cynical corporate social responsibility campaigns, Fleming paints a bleak picture of neoliberal capitalism in which the economic and emotional dysfunctions of a society of wage slaves greatly outweigh its professed benefits.
In The Mythology of Work, Peter Fleming examines how neoliberal society uses the ritual of work (and the threat of its denial) to maintain the late capitalist class order. As our society is transformed into a factory that never sleeps, work becomes a universal reference point for everything else, devoid of any moral or political worth.
Blending critical theory with recent accounts of job related suicides, office-induced paranoia, fear of relaxation, managerial sadism and cynical corporate social responsibility campaigns, Fleming paints a bleak picture of neoliberal capitalism in which the economic and emotional dysfunctions of a society of wage slaves greatly outweigh its professed benefits.
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表中的内容
Introduction: Once Upon a Time, Man Invented Work…1. The Factory That Never Sleeps
2. Planet of Work
3. What Is Managerialism?
4. Viral Capitalism in the Bedroom
5. Corporate Ideology as False Truth Telling
6. Critique of Dialogical Reason
Conclusion: Inoperative Critique and the End of Work
References
Index
关于作者
Peter Fleming is Professor of Organisation Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is the author of The Mythology of Work (Pluto, 2015) and The Death of Homo Economicus (Pluto, 2017).购买此电子书可免费获赠一本！
语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● 网页 224 ● ISBN 9781783712991 ● 文件大小 5.8 MB ● 出版者 Pluto Press ● 市 London ● 国家 GB ● 发布时间 2015 ● 版 1 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 4317699 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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