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Keywords
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Description
Organized alphabetically as a lexicon, Keywords explores the history and common usage of major terms in the everyday language of capitalism. Because the words in this book have successfully infiltrated everyday life in the English-speaking world, their meanings often seem self-evident, even benign. Who could be against empowerment, after all? Keywords uncovers the unexpected histories of words like innovation, which was once synonymous with “false prophecy” before it became the prevailing faith of Silicon Valley. Other words, like best practices and human capital, are relatively new coinages that promise us a kind of freedom within a marketplace extending its reach across the public sector and into our private lives. The new language of capitalism burnishes hierarchy, competition, and exploitation as leadership, collaboration, and sharing, modeling for us the habits of the economically successful person: be visionary, be self-reliant, and never, ever stop working.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
216
Release Date:
2019-01-15
Publication Date:
2019-01-15
Publisher:
Haymarket Books
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
160846962X
ISBN13:
9781608469628
Weight:
281 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
215 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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Very good
Almost no signs of wear. Book pages have no markings, accessories are intact and all other media are in good condition.
€8,49