Resisting Work

Resisting Work

by Peter Fleming
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A job is no longer something we "do," but instead something we "are.

" As the boundaries between work and non-work have dissolved, we restructure ourselves and our lives using social ingenuity to get things done and be resourceful outside the official work.

Format
218 pages
First published
2014
Publishers
Temple University Press

This book is a critique of the paradigmatic shift into a Neoliberal world, honing in on how the glorified values of free-market fundamentalism affect the ordinary and seemingly ineluctable practice of work. Unlike in previous paradigms - namely Fordism - in which employers adopted a more supervisory role, able to identify contrarian and rouge work practices (that is, any that deviate from the imposed 'norm'), Neoliberalism has caused a fundamental change in this mode of thinking.

Peter Fleming

About Peter Fleming

Adventurer and travel writer. A brother of James Bond author Ian Fleming, he married actress Celia Johnson in 1935 and worked on military deception operations in World War II. He was a grandson of the Scottish financier Robert Fleming, who founded the Scottish American Investment Trust and the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co....

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