Critical social theory and the end of work /

Critical social theory and the end of work /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Granter, Edward
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
Series:Rethinking classical sociology.
Subjects:
Automation > Social aspects.
Work > Social aspects.
Critical theory.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : critical social theory and the end of work
  • The beginning of the end of work
  • Industrialism, utopia, and the end of work
  • Marx and the end of work
  • Marcuse : needs and potentialities in the age of automation
  • The future of work and leisure
  • AndrĂ© Gorz : postindustrial marxism and the end of work
  • Sociology and the end of work
  • Travail sans frontieres : globalisation and the end of work
  • Conclusion : the end of work as critical social theory.