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Creating the New Worker

Work, Consumption and Subordination

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Revisits Gramscian notions by exploring the possibility of the emergence a new type of worker, shaped by the demands of the new workplaces of the early 21st century

  • Provides an interesting blend of contemporary research with a return to long established theory – demonstrating the relevance of the latter to the former

  • Offers an integrated account derived from both critical Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis.

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    • Jean-Pierre Durand
    Pages 1-11
  3. Lean Management: The Invisible Revolution

    • Jean-Pierre Durand
    Pages 13-44
  4. The New Worker Dispossessed of Work

    • Jean-Pierre Durand
    Pages 103-157
  5. The New Worker in Service Activities

    • Jean-Pierre Durand
    Pages 159-230
  6. The Impossible Rationalisation of Service Activities

    • Jean-Pierre Durand
    Pages 231-309
  7. Two Scenarios for the Future

    • Jean-Pierre Durand
    Pages 311-372
  8. Conclusion: What Comes After Work

    • Jean-Pierre Durand
    Pages 373-377
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 379-408

About this book

This book explores the relationship between the changing nature of capitalism and the creation of the new worker. In a changing global economy, work - as the activity that structures individuals in capitalism both socially and psychologically - is being undermined. 

Combining a Gramscian critique of contemporary patterns of capitalist labour control with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Durand examines what kinds of human beings are emerging in and through modern work, or on its margins. 

Creating the New Worker will be of interest to students and scholars who engage in the sociology and psychology of work, economics, and labour. 




Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Évry Paris-Saclay, Évry, France

    Jean-Pierre Durand

About the author

Jean-Pierre Durand is Professor of Sociology at Université d’Evry Paris-Saclay, France, and Editor-founder of La Nouvelle Revue du Travail.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Creating the New Worker

  • Book Subtitle: Work, Consumption and Subordination

  • Authors: Jean-Pierre Durand

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93260-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93259-0Published: 25 September 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06623-9Published: 19 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93260-6Published: 08 September 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 408

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociology of Work, Social Theory, Industrial Organization, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Social Structure, Social Inequality

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