The brave new world of work / Ulrich Beck ; translated by Patrick Camiller.

Author/creator Beck, Ulrich
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2000.
Descriptionv, 202 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Uniform titleSchöne neue Arbeitswelt. English
Contents Brazilianization of the West : two scenarios, one introduction -- Antithesis to the work society -- Transition from the first to the second modernity : five challenges -- Future of work and its scenarios : an interim balance-sheet -- Risk regime : how the work society is becoming risk society -- Thousand worlds of insecure work : Europe's future glimpsed in Brazil -- Great example? : work and democracy in the USA -- Vision of the future I : the Europe of civil labour -- Vision of the future II : postnational civil society.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99058486
ISBN0745623972
ISBN0745623980