A provocative and disturbing look at the ways new economic facts are shaping our personal and social values. The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday life?how the work ethic is changing; how new beliefs about merit and talent displace old values of craftsmanship and achievement; how what Sennett calls the ?specter of uselessness? haunts professionals as well as manual workers; how the boundary between consumption and politics is dissolving. Reformers of both private and public institutions have preached that flexible, global corporations provide a model of freedom for individuals, unlike the experience of fixed and static bureaucracies that Max Weber once called...
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2012-01-09
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Mycket intressant bok. Jag tyckte att den var lite svår att komma in i i början men sedan blev den bara mer och mer intressant. Han förklarar mycket av det som instinktivt känns fel i dagens samhälle.
