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ISBN-- 9788125030669 This book surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place.The author shows how these changes affect everyday life how the work ethic is changing how new beliefs about merit and talent displace old values of craftsmanship and achievement; how the sector of uselessness haunts professionals as well as manual workers; how the boundary between consumption and politics is dissolving. He argues that in banishing old ills, the new economy model has created new social and emotional traumas. Only a certain kind of human being can prosper in unstable, fragmentary institutions; the culture of the new capitalism demands an ideal self oriented to the short term focuses on potential ability rather than accomplishment, willing to discount or abandon past experience, in a concluding section, the author examines a more durable from of selfhood, and what practical initiatives could counter the pernicious effects of reform.
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Pages : 224
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