Reworking Modernity: Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent

by Allan Pred

Book Overview

Using both grand conceptualizations and grounded case studies, Allan Pred and Michael Watts look at how people cope with and give meaning to capitalism and modernity in different times and places. As capital accumulation has grown and taken new forms, it has affected technology and labor relations which in turn have affected people's daily lives. These changes have not always been either welcome or easy. Pred and Watts focus on the symbolic discontent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813518326
• ISBN13: 9780813518329
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"