Critical social theory and the end of work / (Record no. 160341)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780754676973 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 306.36 |
| Item number | GRA/C |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Edward Granter |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Critical social theory and the end of work / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Granter, Edward |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Ashgate, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 202 p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents --<br/>Acknowledgements --<br/>1 Introduction: Critical Social Theory and the End of Work --<br/>Critical Theory --<br/>Critical Theory and critical social theory --<br/>The meaning of the end of work --<br/>Work --<br/>Scope of the book --<br/>Outline of the Chapters --<br/><br/>2 The Beginning of the End of Work --<br/>Introduction --<br/>Definitions of work --<br/>Work in nonindustrial society --<br/>Historical conceptions of work --<br/>Industrialisation and the rise of work --<br/>Conclusion --<br/><br/>3 Industrialism, Utopia, and the End of Work --<br/>More's Utopia --<br/>The play of the passions: Fourier's utopia --<br/>Etzler's technological utopia. Bellamy: Work in the rational society --<br/>The work of art and the art of work: William Morris --<br/>Conclusion --<br/><br/>4 Marx and the End of Work --<br/>Introduction --<br/>Work as the human essence --<br/>Aesthetics and affirmation in work --<br/>Marx's critique of work under capitalism --<br/>Machinery, value and the transformation of work --<br/>Marx, the end of work and the politics of time --<br/>Conclusion --<br/><br/>5 Marcuse: Needs and Potentialities in the Age of Automation --<br/>Introduction --<br/>Marcuse, needs, and the human essence --<br/>Work and Eros --<br/>Eros and automation --<br/>Work in one dimensional society. Work and aesthetics in Marcuse --<br/>Marcuse and the new sensibility --<br/>Conclusion --<br/><br/>6 The Future of Work and Leisure --<br/>Introduction --<br/>Automation, the affluent society and the future of work --<br/>Futurology and revolution: Towards the year 2000 --<br/>The future of work in postindustrial society --<br/>The revolt against the work ethic and the revenge of work --<br/>The end of work, or work resurgent? --<br/>Conclusion --<br/><br/>7 Andre Gorz: Postindustrial Marxism and the End of Work --<br/>Introduction: Gorz in intellectual context --<br/>Gorz's changing theoretical perspective? --<br/>The end of work, a strategy for labour. Post scarcity society and the new sensibility --<br/>Reduction of work in Strategy and beyond --<br/>The unfulfilled potential of capitalist technology --<br/>From alienation to heteronomy, the end of work in the electronic era --<br/>New social subjects: The non working non class --<br/>Gorz and Negri on immaterial labour --<br/>Living dead capitalism and the ghost of work --<br/>Conclusion --<br/><br/>8 Sociology and the End of Work: Classical, Cultural and Critical Theories --<br/>Introduction --<br/>The categorisation of social thought --<br/>The establishment of work as sociological category. Offe and the decline of work: Heterogenisation and rationality --<br/>The debate over the work ethic: Taylorisation, morality and necessity --<br/>Increasing unemployment, decreasing work time --<br/>A note on Bauman and the work ethic --<br/>The end of the industrial community? --<br/>Habermas: work and rationality in the administered society --<br/>Social change, system integration and the obsolescence of work --<br/>The sociological shift --<br/>From production to consumption --<br/>Baudrillard: Shattering the Mirror of Production --<br/>New Times and cultural studies: Consumption as resistance. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Automation -- Social aspects |
| -- | Critical theory |
| -- | Work -- Social aspects |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | General Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession number | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Koha item type |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 29/08/2016 | 306.36 GRA/C | P15225 | 13/07/2018 | 13/07/2018 | General Books |