Manufacturing Discontent

The Trap of Individualism in Corporate Society

Автор: Michael Perelman

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: PLUTO PRESS

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Corporate power has a huge impact on the rights and privileges of individuals -- as workers, consume...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Michael Perelman

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2005

страници

224

EAN

9780745324067

ISBN

0745324061

Enbook ID

04671447

Издател

PLUTO PRESS

Теглоt

308

Размери

135 x 215 x 18

Пълно описание

Corporate power has a huge impact on the rights and privileges of individuals -- as workers, consumers, and citizens. This book explores how the myth of individualism reinforces corporate power by making people perceive themselves as having choices, when in fact most peoples' options are very limited. Perelman describes the manufacture of unhappiness - the continual generation of dissatisfaction with products people are encouraged to purchase and quickly discard - and the complex techniques corporations employ to avoid responsibility and accountability to their workers, consumers and the environment. He outlines ways in which individuals can surpass individualism and instead work together to check the growing power of corporations. While other books have surveyed the corporate landscape, or decried modern consumerism, Perelman, a professor of economics, places these ideas within a proper economic and historical context. He explores the limits of corporate accountability and responsibility, and investigates the relation between a wide range of phenomena such as food, fear and terrorism. Highly readable, Manufacturing Discontent will appeal to anyone with an interest in the way society works - and what really determines the rights of individuals in a corporate society.

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