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Book SynopsisHow neoliberal society has transformed the nature of work into a pointless ritual.
Trade Review'Thought-provoking.' (Business Book of the Week) -- The Times
'The practical lesson from Fleming's provocation is to ask ourselves how much of the work we do every day is simply posturing and bad habit.' -- Financial Times
'Highly recommended.' -- CHOICE
'Fleming's analysis of work critically confronts today's capitalism, now well into its shift from old centres to new, lower-wage centres. The resulting precarity, scarcity, and mindlessness of work imposed on the old centers is being covered with an ideological fetishisation of work that this book deconstructs well.' -- Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
'Fleming has established himself as the foremost critic of our generation on the pervasive and pernicious ideologies of business.' -- Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education, Singapore Management University
'Acerbic, darkly humorous ... an entertaining read' -- Kate Hardy, Times Higher Education
'Doesn't just paint a bleak portrait of modern life under late capitalism: it also holds that notions of the dignity of labour in the 21st century have become redundant, a joke.' -- Peter Murphy, the Irish Times
'I very much enjoyed reading this book. It draws upon a wide range of critical theory, especially Marx, Nietzsche, Adorno, Foucault, Negri, Certeau, and Deleuze and Guattari, in order to achieve a powerful critique of capitalist work' -- Sociology
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Once Upon a Time, Man Invented Work...
1. The Factory That Never Sleeps
2. Planet of Work
3. What Is Managerialism?
4. Viral Capitalism in the Bedroom
5. Corporate Ideology as False Truth Telling
6. Critique of Dialogical Reason
Conclusion: Inoperative Critique and the End of Work
References
Index
