Ritual and the Sacred (Rethinking Classical Sociology)

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Critical Theory......Page 12
Critical Theory and critical social theory......Page 15
The meaning of the end of work......Page 16
Work......Page 17
Outline of the Chapters......Page 18
Definitions of work......Page 20
Work in nonindustrial society......Page 23
Historical conceptions of work......Page 25
Industrialisation and the rise of work......Page 32
Conclusion......Page 40
3 Industrialism, Utopia, and the End of Work......Page 42
More's Utopia
......Page 43
The play of the passions: Fourier's utopia
......Page 45
Etzler's technological utopia 
......Page 51
Bellamy: Work in the rational society......Page 54
The work of art and the art of work: William Morris......Page 58
Conclusion......Page 60
Introduction......Page 62
Work as the human essence......Page 63
Aesthetics and affirmation in work......Page 65
Marx's critique of work under capitalism
......Page 67
Machinery, value and the transformation of work......Page 69
Marx, the end of work and the politics of time......Page 75
Conclusion......Page 77
Introduction......Page 80
Marcuse, needs, and the human essence......Page 81
Work and Eros......Page 84
Eros and automation......Page 87
Work in one dimensional society......Page 90
Work and aesthetics in Marcuse......Page 93
Marcuse and the new sensibility......Page 97
Conclusion......Page 99
Introduction......Page 104
Automation, the affluent society and the future of work......Page 107
Futurology and revolution: Towards the year 2000......Page 110
The future of work in postindustrial society......Page 113
The revolt against the work ethic and the revenge of work......Page 114
The end of work, or work resurgent?......Page 118
Conclusion......Page 120
Introduction: Gorz in intellectual context......Page 124
Gorz's changing theoretical perspective?
......Page 125
The end of work, a strategy for labour......Page 126
Post scarcity society and the new sensibility......Page 129
Reduction of work in Strategy and beyond......Page 131
The unfulfilled potential of capitalist technology......Page 132
From alienation to heteronomy, the end of work in the electronic era......Page 133
New social subjects: The non working non class......Page 135
Gorz and Negri on immaterial labour......Page 137
Living dead capitalism and the ghost of work......Page 142
Conclusion......Page 144
The categorisation of social thought......Page 146
The establishment of work as sociological category......Page 147
Offe and the decline of work: Heterogenisation and rationality......Page 149
The debate over the work ethic: Taylorisation, morality and necessity......Page 150
Increasing unemployment, decreasing work time......Page 151
A note on Bauman and the work ethic......Page 153
The end of the industrial community?......Page 154
Habermas: work and rationality in the administered society......Page 155
Social change, system integration and the obsolescence of work......Page 158
The sociological shift......Page 160
From production to consumption......Page 161
Baudrillard: Shattering the Mirror of Production......Page 162
New Times and cultural studies: Consumption as resistance......Page 165
Cultural studies in New Times: A critique of consumption as resistance......Page 167
Conclusion: Consumer society and one dimensional thought......Page 172
Globalisation in perspective......Page 176
Defining globalisation......Page 177
Capital, labour, globalisation......Page 178
The white heat of neoliberalism; globalisation and the West......Page 179
Exporting jobs, individualising risk......Page 180
Deregulate and punish: work under neoliberal globalisation......Page 182
Conclusion: work in the global South......Page 187
10 Conclusion: The End of Work as Critical Social Theory......Page 190
References......Page 196
Index......Page 210