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1 online resource |
| Series |
Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; v. 43 |
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Historical materialism book series ; v. 43.
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| Contents |
Foreword; Preface to the English Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction; Chapter One Capital's Social-Metabolic Order and its System of Mediations; The system of first-order mediations; The emergence of the system of second-order mediations; Chapter Two Dimensions of the Structural Crisis of Capital; The crisis of Taylorism and Fordism as the phenomenal expression of the structural crisis; Chapter Three The Responses of Capital to Its Structural Crisis: Productive Restructuring and Its Repercussions in the Labour-Process |
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The limits of Taylorism/Fordism and of the social-democratic compromiseThe emergence of mass-worker revolts and the crisis of the welfare-state; Chapter Four Toyotism and the New Forms of Capital-Accumulation; The fallacy of 'total quality' under the diminishing utility-rate of the use-value of commodities; The 'lyophilisation' of organisation and labour in the Toyotist factory: new forms of labour-intensification; Chapter Five From Thatcher's Neoliberalism to Blair's 'Third Way': the Recent British Experience; Neoliberalism, the world of work and the crisis of unionism in England |
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Elements of productive restructuring in Britain: ideas and practiceBritish strikes in the 1990s: forms of confrontation with neoliberalism and the casualisation of work; New Labour and Tony Blair's 'Third Way'; Chapter Six The Class-that-Lives-from-Labour: the Working Class Today; Towards a broader notion of the working class; Dimensions of the diversity, heterogeneity and complexity of the working class; The sexual division of labour: transversalities between the dimensions of class and gender; Wage-earners in the service-sector, the 'third sector' and new forms of domestic labour |
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Transnationalisation of capital and the world of workChapter Seven The World of Labour and Value-Theory: Forms of Material and Immaterial Labour; The growing interaction between labour and scientific knowledge: a critique of the thesis of 'science as primary productive force'; The interaction between material and immaterial labour; Contemporary forms of estrangement; Chapter Eight Excursus on the Centrality of Labour: the Debate between Lukács and Habermas; The centrality of labour in Lukács's Ontology of Social Being; Labour and teleology; Labour as the model of social practice |
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Labour and freedomHabermas's critique of the 'paradigm of labour'; The paradigm of communicative action and the sphere of intersubjectivity; The uncoupling of system and lifeworld; The colonisation of the lifeworld and Habermas's critique of the theory of value; A critical sketch of Habermas's critique; Authentic and inauthentic subjectivity; Chapter Nine Elements towards an Ontology of Everyday Life; Chapter Ten Working Time and Free Time: towards a Meaningful Life Inside and Outside of Work; Chapter Eleven Foundations of a New Social-Metabolic Order; Appendices |
| Summary |
Contrary to the affirmation of the end of labour, The Meanings of Work explore the complexity of the working class today; the sexual division of labour and transversalities between the dimensions of class and gender; globalisation of capital and labour |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Labor movement -- History -- 20th century
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Labor -- History -- 20th century
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Labor movement -- History -- 21st century
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Labor -- History -- 21st century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
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Labor
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Labor movement
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004235984 |
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9004235981 |
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