The Brave New World of Work
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (903 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0745623980 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 202 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In the "second modernity" individuals define the patterns of their lives themselves, and a "self-active civil society" has become possible. This is the kind of pace-setting radical thinking necessary to keep up with the breakneck speed of change in the Global Age. ‘With characteristic panache, Ulrich Beck has once again cut right through conventional economic and political language to make his point. It greatly extends and devlops Beck's discussion of the "destandardization of labour" in his Risk Society,
Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich
Beck's alternative vision is centred on the concept of active citizens democratically organized in local, and increasingly also regional or transnational, networks. In this important book, Ulrich Beck - one of the leading social thinkers in Europe today - examines how work has become unstable in the modern world and presents a new vision for the future. Against the threat of social exclusion, everyone can and must have a right to be included in a new definition and distribution of work. It will also appeal to a broader audience interested in the issues and debat
Across the Great Divide Panopticonman When he's good, he's great. Some passages in this book, especially those dealing with Beck's idea of a new civil society that must be forged out of the remains of the social welfare contract, are inspiring. When he's not so good, it's because he's repetitive, or because he's speaking so generally about the effects of the global economy that he veers into vague abstraction at the expense of driving his thesis home. Because it's a challenging thesis -- the idea of paid civil work as a way to (re)create a truly democratic society -- and because it's articulation is at least partially supported through data, it's easy to forgive the