{"product_id":"unnecessary-suffering-management-markets-and-the-liquidation-of-solidarity-paperback","title":"Unnecessary Suffering: Management, Markets and the Liquidation of Solidarity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaurice Glasman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey have a dream--a dream of a world where everything and everybody can be bought and sold, a world run efficiently by managers, a world where \"freedom\" means the free market. Maurice Glasman argues that this dream is an unrealizable utopia--or a nightmare if put into practice. He takes the tired old clich s of management-speak of the New Right and New Left alike and turns them on their heads: managers are not efficient, they are barriers to work and production. \"Liberal democracy\"--which now means the free market and the strong state--should be turned upside down, with democracy at the level of the economy and liberalism at the level of the state. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on the work of Karl Polanyi, Glasman argues that there is no need to surrender solidarity and human rights to the march of the managers and the market. There is another tradition, represented by the labour movement and Catholic Church in postwar West Germany, and Solidarity in Poland before 1989, when statist communitarianism and the New Right took over. \u003ci\u003eUnnecessary Suffering examines\u003c\/i\u003e this tradition and issues a call that human beings and the environment cannot, should not, and will not be treated like commodities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor all workers drowning in a sea of dogma and management.memos, \u003ci\u003eUnnecesary Suffering\u003c\/i\u003e is necessary reading.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 8.48 x 5.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 17, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51797128708384,"sku":"9781859840719","price":28.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5e656dc6d3b11e4a1847ca9b392d3651.webp?v=1780774180","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/unnecessary-suffering-management-markets-and-the-liquidation-of-solidarity-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}