Creating the New Worker Work, Consumption and Subordination
This book explores the relationship between the changing nature of capitalism and the creation of the new worker. In a changing global economy, work - as the activity that structures individuals in capitalism both socially and psychologically -
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CREATING THE NEW WORKER Work, Consumption and Subordination
Creating the New Worker
Jean-Pierre Durand
Creating the New Worker Work, Consumption and Subordination
Jean-Pierre Durand University of Évry Paris-Saclay Évry, France
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No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don’t like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself not for others - what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1899.
Foreword
Jean-Pierre Durand is one of France’s leading labour sociologists and was amongst the first to introduce the Anglo Saxon labour process debate, including the work of Michael Burawoy, to a Francophone audience. In this very refreshing new work, he offers a timely response to the somewhat tired nature of the debate on management and employee responses and social forms of labour control in the UK and the USA. In this highly original work, Durand develops Gramsci’s notion of the New Worker beyond the Fordian principle of the mass society and the mass worker. The book’s focus then shifts to the fate of the new wo
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