Beck, Ulrich. The Brave New World Of Work. (Polity Press, 2000)
"The upshot is that the more work relations are "deregulated" and "flexibilised" rgw faster the work society changes into a risk society." p3
his "social structure of ambivilance" sounds like a weberian structure..
"it can not be concealed for long that the bases of the much praised welfare state and a lively every day democracy together with the whole self image of a worker citizen society based on "institutionalised class compromise" are falling apart" p4
"what appears as a final collapse must instead be converted into a founding period for new ideas and models, a period that will open the way to the state, economy and society of the 21st century." p5
concepts of post modernity versus the idea of a reflexive modernity or modernities second stage
"globalisation threatens national soverignty and the identity of the "homeland" but it does so not through open rivalary, conquest or subjection but by subversively, intensifying economic dependence, transnational decision making powers and multicultural influences." p26
"labour is local, capital is global" p28 !?!?!
"it is also true today that kids get the hang of computers by playing computer games. Are they freely shaping themselves in the act of play or are they potential employees of the computer game and entertainment industries who put hard work even into play? The autism of computer games would seem to point to the latter." p62
"Nevertheless, the Fordist growth regime, consisting in mass production, mass labour and mass consumption, did not only mean fixed times for holidays and other activities that underpinned and standardised life together in family, neighbourhood and community. It was also shaped and reinforced by a "mode of regulation" which supported the growth regime culturally, politically and legally. This involved a wide range of strategies , actors and conditions which tied company management, banks, trade unions and political parties as well as governments, to a relatively uniform philosophy of growth and a corresponding set of measures held out a promise of growth." p69
"Whereas the Fordist regime brought about the standardisation of work, the risk regime involved no individualisation of work, the risk regime involves an individualisation of work. Whereas fordism took no account of damage to the enviroment, the risk regime makes central the question of how capital and labour handle both the "goods" and the "baths" of prosperity." p70
"A lifeworld process of detraditionalisation means that the standard biography becomes an elective or do it your self biography, a risk biography. Work is "chopped up" by time and contract. And there is also an individualisation of consumption that is individualised products and markets emerge." p75
his "social structure of ambivilance" sounds like a weberian structure..
"it can not be concealed for long that the bases of the much praised welfare state and a lively every day democracy together with the whole self image of a worker citizen society based on "institutionalised class compromise" are falling apart" p4
"what appears as a final collapse must instead be converted into a founding period for new ideas and models, a period that will open the way to the state, economy and society of the 21st century." p5
concepts of post modernity versus the idea of a reflexive modernity or modernities second stage
"globalisation threatens national soverignty and the identity of the "homeland" but it does so not through open rivalary, conquest or subjection but by subversively, intensifying economic dependence, transnational decision making powers and multicultural influences." p26
"labour is local, capital is global" p28 !?!?!
"it is also true today that kids get the hang of computers by playing computer games. Are they freely shaping themselves in the act of play or are they potential employees of the computer game and entertainment industries who put hard work even into play? The autism of computer games would seem to point to the latter." p62
"Nevertheless, the Fordist growth regime, consisting in mass production, mass labour and mass consumption, did not only mean fixed times for holidays and other activities that underpinned and standardised life together in family, neighbourhood and community. It was also shaped and reinforced by a "mode of regulation" which supported the growth regime culturally, politically and legally. This involved a wide range of strategies , actors and conditions which tied company management, banks, trade unions and political parties as well as governments, to a relatively uniform philosophy of growth and a corresponding set of measures held out a promise of growth." p69
"Whereas the Fordist regime brought about the standardisation of work, the risk regime involved no individualisation of work, the risk regime involves an individualisation of work. Whereas fordism took no account of damage to the enviroment, the risk regime makes central the question of how capital and labour handle both the "goods" and the "baths" of prosperity." p70
"A lifeworld process of detraditionalisation means that the standard biography becomes an elective or do it your self biography, a risk biography. Work is "chopped up" by time and contract. And there is also an individualisation of consumption that is individualised products and markets emerge." p75
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