Presents the changes in contemporary business culture. Using an analysis of the management texts that have formed the thinking of employers in their reorganization of business, this book traces the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. It shows that from the middle of the 1970s, capitalism abandoned the hierarchical Fordist work structure.
A major study of the organization of contemporary capitalism, which sold well in hardback. 'Extremely well-written and well- argued' "Times Higher Education Supplement"
“This massive book is an astonishing combination—an ideological and cultural analysis, a socio-historical narrative, an essay in political economy, and a bold piece of engaged advocacy … a dizzying theoretical tour.”
—New Left Review
“A wide-ranging, nuanced sociological inquiry into the nature of contemporary work.”
—Choice“[A] vast and ambitious work, which is inscribed in a great tradition of theoretical and critical sociology.”
—Le Monde“This magnificent book [is] the sociology of a whole generation which capitalism caught on the wrong foot. In more than 800 pages which one devours like a great novel, the book furnishes new weapons for the renewal of the Left.”
—Libération“This book will no doubt come to be regarded as a contemporary classic of political economy and political sociology.”
—Political Studies Review“Ambitious and fascinating.”
—Le Nouvel Observateur
