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A classic study of labour and unemployment in the post-industrial world

Trade Review
'Vintage Gorz – stimulating in its insight and rich in its documentation' -- Guardian
'Gorz is one of the most important political thinkers of our time.' -- Le Monde

Table of Contents
Preface: Nine theses for a future left
Introduction
1. The working class according to saint Marx
2. The myth of collective appropriation
3. The proletariat as republica of capital
4. Workers' power
5. Personal Power and functional power
6. A new historical subject: the non-class of post-industrial proletarians
7. The post-industrial revolution
8. Towards a dual society
9. The sphere of necessity: the state
Postscript: Deductive growth and productive shrinking
Appendix 1: Towards a policy of time
Appendix 2: Utopia for a possible dual society

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      Publisher: Pluto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/03/1994
      ISBN13: 9780861043644, 978-0861043644
      ISBN10: 0861043642

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A classic study of labour and unemployment in the post-industrial world

      Trade Review
      'Vintage Gorz – stimulating in its insight and rich in its documentation' -- Guardian
      'Gorz is one of the most important political thinkers of our time.' -- Le Monde

      Table of Contents
      Preface: Nine theses for a future left
      Introduction
      1. The working class according to saint Marx
      2. The myth of collective appropriation
      3. The proletariat as republica of capital
      4. Workers' power
      5. Personal Power and functional power
      6. A new historical subject: the non-class of post-industrial proletarians
      7. The post-industrial revolution
      8. Towards a dual society
      9. The sphere of necessity: the state
      Postscript: Deductive growth and productive shrinking
      Appendix 1: Towards a policy of time
      Appendix 2: Utopia for a possible dual society

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