The Culture of the New Capitalism (Castle Lectures Series)
The Culture of the New Capitalism (Castle Lectures Series)
Editorial Reviews
Review
Douglas W. Rae :
"Reflective, studded with sharp insights, moving with grace between big ideas and specific cases. This is vintage Sennett."-Douglas W. Rae, author of City:Urbanism and Its End
Robert M. Solow : "A fairly successful economy does not produce much in the way of contentment. Are there seismic rumbles that might cause cracks on the surface? Richard Sennett thinks so. Read on."-Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus, M.I.T.
Book Description
The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday life—how the work ethic is changing; how new beliefs about merit and talent displace old values of craftsmanship and achievement; how what Sennett calls “the specter of uselessness” haunts professionals as well as manual workers; how the boundary between consumption and politics is dissolving.
In recent years, reformers of both private and public institutions have preached that flexible, global corporations provide a model of freedom for individuals, unlike the experience of fixed and static bureaucracies Max Weber once called an “iron cage.” Sennett argues that, in banishing old ills, the new-economy model has created new social and emotional traumas. Only a certain kind of human being can prosper in unstable, fragmentary institutions: the culture of the new capitalism demands an ideal self oriented to the short term, focused on potential ability rather than accomplishment, willing to discount or abandon past experience. In a concluding section, Sennett examines a more durable form of self hood, and what practical initiatives could counter the pernicious effects of “reform.”
The Culture of the New Capitalism,Richard Sennett,Yale University Press,030010782X,Anthropology - Cultural,Archaeology / Anthropology,Capitalism,Economic Conditions,Economics - General,General,Industrial organization,Industrial sociology,Politics / Current Events,Social Science,Social aspects,Sociology,Capitalist or free market economies,Economic theory & philosophy,International economics,Social Science / General
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