Manufacturing Discontent: The Trap of Individualism in Corporate Society

by Michael Perelman

Overview

A critical guide to the corporatisation of modern life that shows what we can do to surpass individualism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745324067
Publisher:	Pluto Press
Publication date:	09/20/2005
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.32(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Sinisa Malesevic is lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Sociology, NUI, Galway. He is author of Ideology, Legitimacy and the New State (Frank Cass, 2002), editor of Culture in Central and Eastern Europe: Institutional and Value Changes (IMO, 1997) and co-editor of Ideology after Poststructuralism (Pluto 2002)._x000B_Iain MacKenzie is a Lecturer in Politics at The Queen's University of Belfast. He is author of articles on Deleuze and Guattari and co-author of Contemporary Social and Political Theory: An Introduction (OUP, 1999).

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Individual Subsumed in the Corporate Economy
2. People as Consumers
3. What Corporate Society Does to Workers
4. Corporate Accountability
5. Accountability vs. Responsibility
6. The Role of Risk
7. Food, Fear, and Terrorism
8. Individuals as Citizens
References
Index