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Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme
01 Jan 1999-
TL;DR: In this article, Eve Chiapello et Luc Boltanski tracent les contours du nouvel esprit du capitalisme a partir d'une analyse inedite des textes de management which ont nourri la pensee du patronat, irrigue les nouveaux modes d'organisation des entreprises.
Abstract: Le capitalisme prospere ; la societe se degrade. Le profit croit, comme l'exclusion. La veritable crise n'est pas celle du capitalisme, mais celle de la critique du capitalisme. Trop souvent attachee a d'anciens schemas d'analyse, la critique conduit nombre de protestataires a se replier sur des modalites de defense efficaces dans le passe mais desormais largement inadaptees aux nouvelles formes du capitalisme redeploye. Cette crise, Eve Chiapello et Luc Boltanski, sociologues, l'analysent a la racine. Ils tracent les contours du nouvel esprit du capitalisme a partir d'une analyse inedite des textes de management qui ont nourri la pensee du patronat, irrigue les nouveaux modes d'organisation des entreprises : a partir du milieu des annees 70, le capitalisme renonce au principe fordiste de l'organisation hierarchique du travail pour developper une nouvelle organisation en reseau, fondee sur l'initiative des acteurs et l'autonomie relative de leur travail, mais au prix de leur securite materielle et psychologique. Ce nouvel esprit du capitalisme a triomphe grâce a la formidable recuperation de la " critique artiste ", celle qui, apres Mai 68, n'avait eu de cesse de denoncer l'alienation de la vie quotidienne par l'alliance du Capital et de la bureaucratie. Une recuperation qui a tue la " critique artiste ". Dans le meme temps la " critique sociale " manquait le tournant du neocapitalisme et demeurait rivee aux vieux schemas de la production hierarchisee ; on la trouva donc fort demunie lorsque l'hiver de la crise fut venu. C'est a une relance conjointe des deux critiques complementaires du capitalisme qu'invite cet ouvrage sans equivalent.
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