The Brave New World of Work by Beck, Ulrich -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title page Copyright page 1: The Brazilianization of the West: Two Scenarios, One Introduction

The political economy of insecurity The right to breaks in lifetime economic activity A method with risks Notes

2: The Antithesis to the Work Society

The Greek polis, or unfreedom through work Modern work-democracy, or freedom through work The future of work and political action Notes

3: The Transition from the First to the Second Modernity: Five Challenges

What is meant by ‘reflexive modernization’? Globalization, or the ‘despatialization of the social’ When the frontiers blur: beyond war and peace? Notes

4: The Future of Work and Its Scenarios: An Interim Balance-Sheet

Scenario 1: from the work society to the knowledge society Scenario 2: capitalism without work Scenario 3: the world market – the neoliberal jobs miracle Scenario 4: the fixed location of work – a globalization risk Scenario 5: sustainable work – the ecological economic miracle Scenario 6: global apartheid Scenario 7: the self-employed – the freedom of insecurity Scenario 8: individualization of work – disintegration of society Scenario 9: the multi-activity society Scenario 10: the free-time society A summary A critique of the future work scenarios Notes

5: The Risk Regime: How the Work Society is Becoming Risk Society

The Fordist regime The risk regime Dimensions of the risk regime: globalization, ecologization, digitalization, individualization and politicization of work Multi-employment and the open organization of work Flexibilization of working time: less money, but more control Eyes-closed politics and criminalization Justice deficits of the caring society Summary Notes

6: A Thousand Worlds of Insecure Work: Europe's Future Glimpsed in Brazil

Farewell to the Western universalism of the work society The future of informality ‘Being your own boss’ in a global world of opaque dependence Beyond the certainties of the work society On the cynicism of statistics: more hopeless, less jobless The ascription of unemployment and exclusion Time poverty, have-nots and the civil society revolution Notes

7: The Great Example? Work and Democracy in the USA

Freedom or equality? The universal mission of the free market as America's belief in itself Worrying signs in paradise The erosion of the middle class The decay of social capital The ‘prisons miracle’, or ethnicity as class A critique of Chicago orthodoxy: neoliberalism serving the break-up of society Notes

8: Vision of the Future I: The Europe of Civil Labour

Multiple modernities and the mirror of one's own future Prelude to seemingly reckless optimism The model of civil labour The Europe of civil labour Concerned people and the ruins of socialism Working citizens and civil labour Switching between paid work and civil labour Notes

9: Vision of the Future II: Postnational Civil Society

The individualism of self-determined engagement The echo effects of transnational communities The family: solidarity of inner space Paid employment: organizable solidarity Transnational communities: solidarity until revoked Global risk regulation: climate politics Networks of diversity: elaborate ways of handling contradictions Limits and strengths of transnational civil labour The dilemma of democracy, or the unclear site of the political Cosmopolitans of the world, unite! Notes

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