http://www.alternet.org/stories/46908/

What are the differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, boom and bust version of capitalism that is taking its place?

In recent years, reformers of both private and public institutions have preached that flexible, global corporations provide a model of freedom for individuals.

But as Professor Richard Sennett explains with this latest economy model come new social and emotional traumas that only a certain kind of person can prosper from.


Additional information:

Professor Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Bemis Professor of Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Culture of the New Capitalism
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030010782X

The Corrosion of Character: Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd
ISBN: 0393319873

Wednesday 16:00-16:30
Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.


18 January 2006


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