| Description |
1 online resource (193 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Modern myths; Pursuing happiness; 1 The happy adventures of capital; The culture of capital: an overview; A reflexive complexity; The power of subjects and objects; (Too) fast subjects; The cultural circuits of happiness; 2 A happy policy; An ancient problem, and its modern fix; The utility of happiness; The utility of Utility; Historians repeat each other, history repeats itself; The political need for happiness; 3 Happiness loves company; Theoretical origins; A modern-day assumption; Happy workers? |
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Champions of the new human relations4 Positively happy; The Manhattan Project; Principles of positivity; Historical and conceptual origins; A mainstream counter-culture; 5 Happy days; Knowing happiness; The happy death of god; 6 Happiness needs practice; 7 Happy ever after?; References; Index |
| Summary |
Explores why contemporary Anglo-American society is obsessed with happiness. Striving to be happy is now a morally imperative pursuit. Through the lens of novel social theory, this book explicates how this has transpired as consequence of a complex 'conspiracy of coordination' between political, organisational and psychological developments |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
BUSINESS and ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior
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BUSINESS and ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture
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Happiness.
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Happiness -- United States
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Psychology -- Industrial and Organizational Psychology
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Social sciences -- Sociology -- General
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Psychology.
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Psychology.
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Happiness
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Burnett, Simon
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| ISBN |
9780230348417 |
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0230348416 |
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9780230289567 |
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0230289568 |
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