Seymour Melman After Capitalism Summary




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The book After Capitalism: From managerialism to workplace democracy, by Seymour Melman, 2001, Alfred A. Knopf, publisher, is available at Amazon books


Table of contents



PART I From Feudalism to Captialism, and After


1 The Shape of Production Under State Capitalism

2 The Founding Alienation of Capitalism




Part II State and Corporate Managers Impose Alienation by Destroying Production Capacity


3 The United States as a Third-Rate Economy

4 State Managers Accumulate military Power Without Limit

5 The Hidden Costs of Campaigning for World Hegemony

6 The Lessons of Soviet Russia: From Alienation to Production Collapse




Part III Managing as Deindustrialization Proceeds


7 The Attempt to Make Workers and Unions Obsolete

8 Management Promotes Ownership Without Control




PART IV Workers, White Collar and Blue, Create a Process of Disalienated
Decision-Making for an Economy and Society After Capitalism


9 Creating Workplace Democracy

10 White Collar Joins the Blue

11 Disalienation by Design: Installing Workplace Democracy


PART V Advancing Workplace Democracy

12 The Advancing Processes of Capitalism and Workplace Democracy



Conclusion: An Exit Path from Capitalism to Workplace Democracy



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