Creating the New Worker Work, Consumption and Subordination /

• Main Author: Durand, Jean-Pierre (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Industrial sociology.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Industrial organization.; Industrial psychology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Sociology of Work.; Social Theory.; Industrial Organization.; Industrial and Organizational Psychology.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

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 - is being undermined. Combining a Gramscian critique of...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Lean Management: The Invisible Revolution
• 3. The New Worker: Fractured Identities and Denied Recognition
• 4. The New Worker Dispossessed of Work
• 5. The New Worker in Service Activities
• 6. The Impossible Rationalisation of Service Activities
• 7. Two Scenarios for the Future
• 8. Conclusion: What Comes After Work. .