A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of Working In The Corrosion of Character , Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" ( Business Week ) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers, a bart...(展开全部)

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 ...(展开全部)

吕克•博尔坦斯基（Luc Boltanski）： 1940年生，法国高等社会科学研究院社会学教授，法国社会学新“实用主义”学派的代表人物，他的著作对社会学、政治经济学及社会和经济史的研究都产生了非常重要的影响； 夏娃•希亚佩洛（Eve Chiapello）：法国巴黎高等商学院教授，主要研究领域：经济社会学和组织理论、管理工具的社会学分析及量化研究方法。

A century after the publication of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures. Why is the critique of capitalism so ineffective today? In this major work, the sociologists Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski suggest that we should be addressing th...(展开全部)

The brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new world of effortless labour and a post-work utopia of ever expanding leisure. But behind the gleaming surface stands millions of workers, often i...(展开全部)

The brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new world of effortless labour and a post-work utopia of ever expanding leisure. But behind the gleaming surface stands millions of workers, often i...(展开全部)

From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As ...(展开全部)

保罗·科利尔（Paul Collier），英国著名经济学家，牛津大学经济学和公共政策教授，前世界银行发展研究部门主任，英国政府顾问，曾获莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖、克林纳国际书卷奖、亚瑟·罗斯图书奖、埃斯托利尔全球事务杰出著作奖等。著有《最底层的10亿人》《战争、枪炮与选票》《难民》等。2010年和2011年被《外交政策》杂志评为“全球顶尖思想家”。

保罗·科利尔（Paul Collier），英国著名经济学家，牛津大学经济学和公共政策教授，前世界银行发展研究部门主任，英国政府顾问，曾获莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖、克林纳国际书卷奖、亚瑟·罗斯图书奖、埃斯托利尔全球事务杰出著作奖等。著有《最底层的10亿人》《战争、枪炮与选票》《难民》等。2010年和2011年被《外交政策》杂志评为“全球顶尖思想家”。

From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As ...(展开全部)