Dead Man Working Book Review
Dead Man Working - Book Review
Dead Man Working is a recently published book written by Carl Cederstorm and Peter Fleming. Cederstorm and Fleming are both university lecturers who have an expertise in similar fields. Cederstorm practices his profession at the Cardiff Business School where he gives lectures in Human Resource Management courses. His research focuses on psychoanalysis, politics, and philosophy. In common, Fleming is a professor at Queen Mary University of London. He is currently lecturing in ‘Work, Organization and Society’ under the School of Business Management. He shows interest in researching on subjects such as organization theory, business ethics, representation of organizations in the media and social theory. Both authors have published a number of books in relation to their fields of research. Capitalism is evidently the dominating economic and political system adopted by the majority of the world. The author confirms that capitalism is indeed the ‘only game in town’ (Cederstrom & Fleming 2012, p.01). However, capitalism in today’s society lacks liveliness and the ideological purposes have shifted as our society emerged. As a result, ‘real capitalism’ has died sometime during the 1970s. The book describes work as a pointless matter and metaphorically compares it to the receding sea and dead desert before the tsunami hits. Human beings are presented as controlled objects. The essentiality to life is simplified to having the right words to say and the right clothes to wear before death takes us away. The author describes working life as a life that is already dead. This is a very controversial statement. Life itself is a subjective matter. Who defines what life is and how does one measure the extent of life? In my opinion, there is a lot more to life than just work itself. Life is an exploration. People go through life by experiencing both good and bad moments. To ignorantly assume that everyone feels miserable about work is
Dead Man Working is a recently published book written by Carl Cederstorm and Peter Fleming. Cederstorm and Fleming are both university lecturers who have an expertise in similar fields. Cederstorm practices his profession at the Cardiff Business School where he gives lectures in Human Resource Management courses. His research focuses on psychoanalysis, politics, and philosophy. In common, Fleming is a professor at Queen Mary University of London. He is currently lecturing in ‘Work, Organization and Society’ under the School of Business Management. He shows interest in researching on subjects such as organization theory, business ethics, representation of organizations in the media and social theory. Both authors have published a number of books in relation to their fields of research. Capitalism is evidently the dominating economic and political system adopted by the majority of the world. The author confirms that capitalism is indeed the ‘only game in town’ (Cederstrom & Fleming 2012, p.01). However, capitalism in today’s society lacks liveliness and the ideological purposes have shifted as our society emerged. As a result, ‘real capitalism’ has died sometime during the 1970s. The book describes work as a pointless matter and metaphorically compares it to the receding sea and dead desert before the tsunami hits. Human beings are presented as controlled objects. The essentiality to life is simplified to having the right words to say and the right clothes to wear before death takes us away. The author describes working life as a life that is already dead. This is a very controversial statement. Life itself is a subjective matter. Who defines what life is and how does one measure the extent of life? In my opinion, there is a lot more to life than just work itself. Life is an exploration. People go through life by experiencing both good and bad moments. To ignorantly assume that everyone feels miserable about work is