Creating the New Worker: Work, Consumption and Subordination

Creating the New Worker: Work, Consumption and Subordination

by Jean-PierreDurand (Author), Jean-Pierre Durand (Author)

Synopsis

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 contemporary patterns of capitalist labour control with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Durand examines what kinds of human beings are emerging in and through modern work, or on its margins.
Creating the New Worker will be of interest to students and scholars who engage in the sociology and psychology of work, economics, and labour.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 426
Edition: 1st ed. 2019
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 25 Sep 2018

ISBN 10: 3319932594
ISBN 13: 9783319932590

Author Bio
Jean-Pierre Durand is Professor of Sociology at Universite d'Evry Paris-Saclay, France, and Editor-founder of La Nouvelle Revue du Travail.