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Observations on modernity
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ISBN: 0804732353 9780804732352 Year: 1998 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.): Stanford university press,


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Prophecy and progress : the sociology of industrial and post-industrial society
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ISBN: 0140220399 0713911468 9780140220391 Year: 1978 Publisher: Harmondsworth: Penguin books,


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The third century : America as a post-industrial society
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ISBN: 0226484580 9780226484587 Year: 1980 Volume: 884 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.): University of Chicago press,


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Globalisering en chaos.
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ISBN: 9052405395 9789052405391 Year: 1999 Publisher: Antwerpen,

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De wereld wordt steeds meer geregeerd door ondemocratische internationale instellingen als de Wereldbank, het Internationaal Monetair Fonds, mediaconcerns en banken. Ze hollen het gezag van de staat uit en ondermijnen de nationale economieën. De media stroomlijnen bovendien ons denken. Dankzij de allernieuwste technologie worden geldstromen met één druk op de knop van de ene kant van de wereld naar de andere versluisd, geldstromen waar niemand verder vat op heeft. Grote b edrijven worden haast even gemakkelijk naar elders verplaatst, met alle gevolgen van dien voor de plaatselijke bevolking. De recente economische en monetaire crisis in Azië en Brazilië bewijst hoe gevaarlijk deze uit de hand gelopen evolutie is. Globalisering leidt tot chaos. Globalisering is geen verschijnsel dat ver van ons bed staat; het grijpt rechtstreeks in in ons eigen leven. Steeds meer worden we geconfronteerd met werkonzekerheid, gedwongen flexibiliteit, stress ,armoede en plotse sluitingen van bedrijven. Ignacio Ramonet analyseert in "Globalisering en chaos" de groeiende internationale warboel. Hij gaat te keer tegen de fatale consensus van het liberale marktdenken die elk alternatief weghoont als naïef of als voorbijgestreefd.


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The first industrialists : the problem of origins
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ISBN: 0521262429 0521088712 0511896778 9780521262422 9780521088718 9780511896774 Year: 1985 Publisher: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge university press,

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The 'first industrialists' were the pioneers and leaders of the British industrial Revolution, the men who founded factories and other large establishments, which were typical of the new economic system. They had a number of precursors since the sixteenth century, but, on the whole, they were a new breed, which emerged in the late eighteenth century. They were markedly different from the leaders of traditional industry. This book is focused on the social and occupational origins of those founders of modem British industry: what kind of families did they come from? What was their occupation before they set up as industrialists? In discussing these and other issues, this study (based on Professor Crouzet's 1983 Ellen McArthur Lectures) Aiakes an important contribution to the problem of social mobility during the Industrial Revolution.

Material culture and mass consumption
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ISBN: 0631156054 9780631156055 Year: 1987 Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell,

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Material Culture and Mass Consumption offers an in-depth exploration of objects, objectification, ideology, and materialism in modern society. Drawing from Hegel, Marx, Munn, and Simmel, the discussion delves into the physicality of the material world and attempts to understand materialism as a form of cultural expression. Targeting mass production as the root of mass consumption, rather than the result, this book positions material goods at odds with genuine social interaction and questions these relationships from the abstract to the intensely specific.

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