Farewell to the Working Class: An Essay on Post-industrial SocialismAndré Gorz argues that changes in the role of the work and labour process in the closing decades of the twentieth century have, once and for all, weakened the power of skilled industrial workers. Their place has been taken, says Gorz, by social movements such as the women's movement and the green movement, and all those who refuse to accept the work ethic so fundamental to early capitalist societies. Provocative and heretical, Farewell to the Working Class is a classic study of labour and unemployment in the post-industrial world. |
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| Title | Farewell to the Working Class: An Essay on Post-industrial Socialism Pluto classics |
| Author | André Gorz |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Pluto Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0861043642, 9780861043644 |
| Length | 152 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Labor Philosophy / Political |
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