The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional EnemiesMonograph on a philosophy for restoring quality of life to modern society - contends that autonomous activities, in which both rich and poor people might find a sense of creativity and freedom, have been thwarted by professionalism, technocracy, and the pursuit of productivity. |
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... industrial mode of production achieves the predominance that I have termed ' radi- cal monopoly ' . This and my previous essays describe how industrial growth produces the modernization of poverty . Modernized poverty appears when the ...
... industrial mode of production achieves the predominance that I have termed ' radi- cal monopoly ' . This and my previous essays describe how industrial growth produces the modernization of poverty . Modernized poverty appears when the ...
Page 43
... industrial state . The assumption that military requirements are to blame for the aggressiveness and destructiveness ... mode of organization can be traced to military antecedents in Napoleonic times . True , the compulsory education for ...
... industrial state . The assumption that military requirements are to blame for the aggressiveness and destructiveness ... mode of organization can be traced to military antecedents in Napoleonic times . True , the compulsory education for ...
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... production of marketable staples . At first , during the industrial revolution , the new technology reduced the worker on the job to a Charlie Chaplin of Modern Times . At this early stage , however , the industrial mode of production ...
... production of marketable staples . At first , during the industrial revolution , the new technology reduced the worker on the job to a Charlie Chaplin of Modern Times . At this early stage , however , the industrial mode of production ...
Contents
Foreword | 7 |
Disabling Professions | 38 |
Enabling Distinctions | 65 |
Copyright | |
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