Subtitle: Working Lives in the Twenty-first Century
I couldn't get through the style of this, so I don't know what I think of the argument. The style seems fervent and allusive, full of what I suspect are specialized usages of some academic field. They're half of them distinguished in quotation-marks, which was perpetually jarring to me, as I automatically interpret those to suggest that others had falsely claimed the word as true. In context, I believe they mean to distinguish a sense shared between the author and the reader and not with some third party. I was adrift, neither the intended reader nor the defensive third party.
The point of the book, I think, is that workers are working longer hours with less autonomy. There are some numbers, comparisons between some stages of the past and different industries and industrialized nations, but they aren't as clear as those in Divergent Paths. (The scope of Modern Times... is so much larger that cleanly comparable statistics might not exist, so it's not very fair of me to prefer the narrower book so much.)
Translated & edited by Giacomo Donis
ISBN: 1-85984-565-7
So wrote clew in History (21st c.). | TrackBack