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  The New Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback) By (author) Luc Boltanski, By (author) Ève Chiapello

  

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  Short Description for The New Spirit of CapitalismPresents the changes in contemporary business culture. Using an analysis of the management texts that have formed the thinking of employers in their reorganization of business, this book traces the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. It shows that from the middle of the 1970s, capitalism abandoned the hierarchical Fordist work structure.
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  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Published: 30 September 2007
  • Format: Paperback 656 pages
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  • Categories: Sociology | Socialism & Left-of-centre Democratic Ideologies | Political Economy | Economic Systems & Structures | Organizational Theory & Behaviour | Ownership & Organization Of Enterprises | Industrial Relations
  • ISBN 13: 9781844671656 ISBN 10: 1844671658
  • Sales rank: 43,042

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• In this major work, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello go to the heart of the changes in contemporary business culture. Via an unprecedented analysis of the latest management texts that have formed the thinking of employers in their reorganization of business, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. They argue that from the middle of the 1970s onwards, capitalism abandoned the hierarchical Fordist work structure and developed a new network-based form of organization that was founded on employee initiative and autonomy in the workplace - a 'freedom' that came at the cost of material and psychological security. The authors connect this new spirit with the children of the libertarian and romantic currents of the late 1960s (as epitomised by dressed-down, cool capitalists such as Bill Gates and 'Ben and Jerry') arguing that they practice a more successful and subtle form of exploitation. In a work that is already a classic in Europe, Boltanski and Chiapello show how the new spirit triumphed thanks to a remarkable recuperation of the left's critique of the alienation of everyday life that simultaneously undermined their 'social critique'.