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This book explores endogenous institutional change and the global, cyclical, and power-based drivers that underpin it. A metatheoretical framework is presented to highlight the influence of path dependence, systemic cycle driven power relations, and institutional design on the d…
This is an informative guide to all key aspects of employability for graduating students, educators, managers, and qualified healthcare professionals. Written specifically for health professionals, the book focuses on their needs and the challenges they face, maximising employab…
How to Develop Your Healthcare Career is an informative guide to all key aspects of employability for graduating students, educators, managers and qualified healthcare professionals. Packed full of potential interview questions, reflection opportunities and case studies, this in…
"From the bestselling author of College Unbound comes a hopeful, inspiring blueprint to help alleviate parents' anxiety and prepare their college-educated child to successfully land a good job after graduation. Saddled with thousands of dollars of debt, today's college students …
1. Prologue -- 2. Changing contexts : the growing demand for transnational human capital and the middle and upper class quest for distinction -- 3. Social background makes all the difference : types of capital, class position and chances for acquiring transnational human capital…
Due to globalization processes, foreign language skills, knowledge about other countries and intercultural competences have increasingly become important for societies and people's social positions. Previous research on social inequality, however, has dominantly focused on the r…
The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor brings together a series of essays bridging intellectual history and the history of the body tracing the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century concept of digital organisms. The book looks at …
From mimetic machines to digital organisms -- Social energeticism in fin-de-siècle Europe -- Social knowledge and the politics of industrial accidents -- Neurasthenia and modernity -- Psychotechnics and politics in Weimar Germany -- The aesthetics of production in the Third Reic…
The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late-twentieth-century notion of digital organisms. Step by step - from Jacques de Vaucanson and his Digesting Duck, through Karl Marx's Capital, Hermann von Helmhol…
The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor
by Project Muse, Rabinbach, Anson
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The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor brings together a series of essays bridging intellectual history and the history of the body tracing the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century concept of digital organisms. The book looks at …
This volume presents Richard Blundell's outstanding research on the modern economic analysis of labor markets and public policy reforms. Professor Blundell's hugely influential work has enhanced greatly our understanding of how individuals' behavior on the labor market respond t…