Review 'Sparklingly sardonic ... Hilariously angry' --Guardian About the Author Peter Fleming is Professor of Business and Society at Cass Business School, City University London. He researches the changing politics of capitalist employment relations, and has a Guardian column on this topic. He is the author of The Mythology of Work (Pluto, 2015) and The Death of Homo Economicus (Pluto, 2017).
U**S
Disappointing
The radio interview with the author that prompted me to buy this showed a very different tone so the somewhat strident and very, very repetitive style of this book came as a surprise. I have left it for a while because it's hard work wading through the repetitions before there's anything new and thought-provoking. Bearing in mind I mostly agree with the author, it's pretty faint praise.
S**1
Great read
Love it, though you do feel angry as you read. Well written (few typos) & gets the point across well.
A**R
Four Stars
If you want to understand more the state of our working society, read this book.
M**Y
Five Stars
Very good read.
R**Y
Five Stars
No problems!!
W**E
Take its message and do not buy this book
Like other anti-capitalist books, I have taken up the general message and so I will not buy this book. I encourage as many people as possible to do the same! Terry Eagleton had such an impact on me with his pro-communist views that I am encouraging everyone: never buy his books! The same applies to this book. Do not buy it. If you do buy it, you are disrespecting its essential message.
N**G
... a newspaper by a reviewer whose columns I usually like. The first couple of chapters were good
I bought this book having read a review in a newspaper by a reviewer whose columns I usually like. The first couple of chapters were good: a dissection and criticism of neoliberal economics that made sense to me, and echoed much that I had been reading in that same newspaper. But after that, it degenerates (as another reviewer says) into a strident and repetitive rant, which reminded me sometimes of the Sokal affair: there were whole sentences that were syntactically sound, but to me they made no sense. I sometimes got to the bottom of a page not having a clue of what the page was about. What is "capitalism's ontological precedence"? At one point, the author quotes Oscar Wilde's "price of everything and value of nothing". He is right to do so, but little of the last 5 chapters adds much to the sentiment, and left me with no answer at all as to what we might be able to do about the 1%-99% divide, the gig economy, the slow dissolution of civic society, and all the other ills that flow from what Fleming terms wreckage economics.
A**R
Five Stars
Would use again
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