Critical social theory and the end of work /
Granter, Edward
- 1st ed.
- London: Ashgate, 2009.
- 202 p.
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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