Critical social theory and the end of work / Granter, Edward
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TextPublication details: London: Ashgate, 2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 202 pISBN: 9780754676973Subject(s): Automation -- Social aspects Critical theory Work -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 306.36 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 306.36 GRA/C (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P15225 |
Contents --
Acknowledgements --
1 Introduction: Critical Social Theory and the End of Work --
Critical Theory --
Critical Theory and critical social theory --
The meaning of the end of work --
Work --
Scope of the book --
Outline of the Chapters --
2 The Beginning of the End of Work --
Introduction --
Definitions of work --
Work in nonindustrial society --
Historical conceptions of work --
Industrialisation and the rise of work --
Conclusion --
3 Industrialism, Utopia, and the End of Work --
More's Utopia --
The play of the passions: Fourier's utopia --
Etzler's technological utopia. Bellamy: Work in the rational society --
The work of art and the art of work: William Morris --
Conclusion --
4 Marx and the End of Work --
Introduction --
Work as the human essence --
Aesthetics and affirmation in work --
Marx's critique of work under capitalism --
Machinery, value and the transformation of work --
Marx, the end of work and the politics of time --
Conclusion --
5 Marcuse: Needs and Potentialities in the Age of Automation --
Introduction --
Marcuse, needs, and the human essence --
Work and Eros --
Eros and automation --
Work in one dimensional society. Work and aesthetics in Marcuse --
Marcuse and the new sensibility --
Conclusion --
6 The Future of Work and Leisure --
Introduction --
Automation, the affluent society and the future of work --
Futurology and revolution: Towards the year 2000 --
The future of work in postindustrial society --
The revolt against the work ethic and the revenge of work --
The end of work, or work resurgent? --
Conclusion --
7 Andre Gorz: Postindustrial Marxism and the End of Work --
Introduction: Gorz in intellectual context --
Gorz's changing theoretical perspective? --
The end of work, a strategy for labour. Post scarcity society and the new sensibility --
Reduction of work in Strategy and beyond --
The unfulfilled potential of capitalist technology --
From alienation to heteronomy, the end of work in the electronic era --
New social subjects: The non working non class --
Gorz and Negri on immaterial labour --
Living dead capitalism and the ghost of work --
Conclusion --
8 Sociology and the End of Work: Classical, Cultural and Critical Theories --
Introduction --
The categorisation of social thought --
The establishment of work as sociological category. Offe and the decline of work: Heterogenisation and rationality --
The debate over the work ethic: Taylorisation, morality and necessity --
Increasing unemployment, decreasing work time --
A note on Bauman and the work ethic --
The end of the industrial community? --
Habermas: work and rationality in the administered society --
Social change, system integration and the obsolescence of work --
The sociological shift --
From production to consumption --
Baudrillard: Shattering the Mirror of Production --
New Times and cultural studies: Consumption as resistance.
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