The New Spirit of Capitalism

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The New Spirit of Capitalism

The New Spirit of Capitalism. Ãˆve Chiapello

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Author: Ãˆve Chiapello
Page Count: 656 pages
Published Date: 30 Sep 2007
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9781844671656
Download Link: The New Spirit of Capitalism
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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'.

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