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The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism : How Market Tyranny Stifles the Economy by Stunting Workers /

Mainstream economics ignores or distorts the most fundamental aspect of this reality: that the vast majority of people must, out of necessity, labor on behalf of others, transformed into nothing but a means to the end of maximum profits for their employers. The nature of the work we do and the condi...

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Autor principal: Perelman, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Monthly Review Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The anti-worker theology of markets
  • Disciplining workers in the procrustean bed
  • How economics marginalized workers
  • Everyday life in a Procrustean world
  • International Procrusteanism
  • Adam Smith's historical vision
  • The dark side of Adam Smith
  • Keeping score
  • The destructive nature of Procrusteanism
  • Where do we go from here?