1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777784403321

Autore

Sennett Richard <1943->

Titolo

The culture of the new capitalism [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Sennett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , c2006

ISBN

1-281-72187-5

9786611721879

0-300-12872-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

The Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics

Disciplina

306.3/6

Soggetti

Industrial sociology

Capitalism - Social aspects

Industrial organization

Bureaucracy

Economic history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This book was given as the Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, delivered by Richard Sennett at Yale University in 2004"--P. facing t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-203) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bureaucracy -- Talent and the specter of uselessness -- Consuming politics -- Social capitalism in our time.

Sommario/riassunto

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."

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784620203321

Autore

Cornell Stephen E (Stephen Ellicott), <1948->

Titolo

The return of the native : American Indian political resurgence / / Stephen Cornell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxon, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1988

©1988

ISBN

0-19-774335-8

1-280-60553-7

9786610605538

0-19-802082-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 278p. ) : ill

Disciplina

973.0497

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Government relations

Indians of North America - Government relations - 1934-

Indians of North America - Ethnic identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the way American Indians dealt with European powers, describes the impact of the westward expansion, and looks at the reemergence of Indian political power.