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Critical Social Theory and the End of Work (Rethinking by Edward Granter

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By Edward Granter

"Critical Social conception and the top of labor" examines the improvement and sociological value of the concept paintings is being eradicated by utilizing complex creation know-how. Granter's engagement with the paintings of key American and ecu figures reminiscent of Marx, Marcuse, Gorz, Habermas and Negri, focuses his arguments for the abolition of labour as a reaction to the present socio-historical alterations affecting our paintings ethic and shopper ideology. through combining heritage of principles with social thought, this publication considers how the 'end of labor' thesis has built and has been seriously applied within the research of contemporary society. His paintings will entice students of sociology, historical past of rules, social and cultural idea in addition to these operating within the fields of serious administration and sociology of labor.

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Maeve Cook has argued that critical social theory is; ‘a mode of reflection that looks critically at processes of social development from the point of view of the obstacles they pose for individual human flourishing’ (Cooke 2004: 418). It will be argued here that our utopians were working very much in this tradition of critical social theory, and we shall begin to see that many of their ideas have much in common with those working within one of the most radical streams of critical social discourse today; theories of the end of work.

Ure was convinced, or appeared convinced, that even the children toiling in the cotton mills for thirteen hours a day were benefiting from the positive moral and physical effects of industrial work. I have visited many factories, both in Manchester and the surrounding district [and did not] ever see children in ill humour. They seemed to be always cheerful and alert, taking pleasure in the light play of their muscles–enjoying the mobility natural to their age…The work of these lively elves seemed to resemble a sport in which habit gave them a pleasing dexterity (Ure 1861, cited in Anthony 1977: 58).

That is, they seek to focus on a particular role played by utopias in the development of specific ideologies or discourses. The five utopian visions that will be examined here have been chosen because they reflect the central question of the present book; what role has the end of work thesis played in modern social thought? That any vision of a world without work is a utopian vision is an assertion that can be questioned, to be sure. As we shall see later in the current book, contemporary end of work theorists would argue that their assertions on the decline and fall of labour are based on empirical investigations, and that their conclusions can be reached largely through a lucid and rational analysis of widely acknowledged economic, cultural and social changes.

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