Book contents
- Virtue Capitalists
- Virtue Capitalists
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Professionalizing the Anglo Economy, c.1870–1945
- Part II Managing the Global Economy, c.1945–1975
- Part III The New Class Conflict, c.1975–2008
- 7 Moral Crisis
- 8 Success Is the Only Virtue
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Epilogue
Contours of the New Class Conflict
from Part III - The New Class Conflict, c.1975–2008
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2023
- Virtue Capitalists
- Virtue Capitalists
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Professionalizing the Anglo Economy, c.1870–1945
- Part II Managing the Global Economy, c.1945–1975
- Part III The New Class Conflict, c.1975–2008
- 7 Moral Crisis
- 8 Success Is the Only Virtue
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the Epilogue, I consider the ways that the rise and fall of the professional class has left the world in thrall to a conflict between managerial capitalism and professional technocracy. Unlike labour versus capital, this intra-bourgeois conflict is not productive of change. Rather, self-perpetuating cycles seeking material and moral authority have infected workplaces and global politics, impeding reform. Much is at stake, including climate change. Professionals, whose work remains necessary to a good society, need to separate virtue from capitalism, disaggregating their moral goals from their own class interests – even to the point of turning the hierarchy that they made on its head. The Epilogue draws inspiration from the reversals of hierarchies made possible by acts of decolonization.
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- Virtue CapitalistsThe Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008, pp. 254 - 257Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023