Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Luc Boltanski teaches sociology at the EHESS, Paris. He is the author of numerous books, including The Making of a Class and The New Spirit of Capitalism.Eve Chiapello is an associate professor at the HEC School of Management, Paris. She is the author of Artistes versus Managers.
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
A wonderful book.
- William Davies, author of The Happiness Industry,
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 monumental work ... it has become a key reference point in many discussions of the culture of contemporary capitalism and the politics of neoliberalism.
- Jeremy Gilbert, author of Common Ground,
In this new edition, the two authors reflect on the reception of the book and the debates it has stimulated.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Luc Boltanski teaches sociology at the EHESS, Paris. He is the author of numerous books, including The Making of a Class and The New Spirit of Capitalism.Eve Chiapello is an associate professor at the HEC School of Management, Paris. She is the author of Artistes versus Managers.