Time for things : labor, leisure, and the rise of mass consumption /

"Time for Things seeks an answer to the question of why, in mature industrial capitalist societies, increasing productivity has tended to get used to increase output and consumption as opposed to reducing the burden of work. Put simply, why do we live in a world so full of goods, many of which...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosenberg, Stephen D., 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
Temas:
Welfare economics.
Consumption (Economics)
Quality of life.
Incentives in industry.
Quality of products.
Electronic books.
Quality of Life
Économie du bien-être.
Qualité de la vie.
Qualité des produits.
Livres numériques.
quality of life.
e-books.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
Incentives in industry
Quality of life
Quality of products
Welfare economics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The puzzle
  • Empirical pattern in the United States
  • A theory of mass consumption as wage-labor commensuration
  • Economic fairness and the wage labor background
  • Standardization of consumption, work, and wages
  • Standardizing utility: brands, commercial, and legal warranties
  • Product testing and product regularization
  • Moral panic about utility: planned obsolescence
  • Conclusion: Capitalism, commensuration, and the normativity of economic action.

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