Jürgen Kocka Libros

Desde el estallido de la crisis financiera de 2008, el capitalismo, que parecía haber consolidado su triunfo tras la caída de la Unión Soviética, vuelve a estar en discusión. Jürgen Kocka, profesor emérito de la Universidad Libre de Berlín, y uno de los más prestigiosos historiadores sociales de nuestro tiempo, trata de responder a estas dudas a través de un recorrido histórico que nos lleva desde sus orígenes hasta la crisis actual, pasando por su expansión mundial en los siglos XIX y XX. Kocka no sólo considera aquí la evolución de las fuerzas económicas la expansión del comercio y la industrialización- sino que se ocupa también de los cambios que introdujo en nuestras formas de trabajo y de vida. De este modo, el conocimiento de la historia del capitalismo nos permite evaluar mejor sus méritos y sus flaquezas: La reforma del capitalismo concluye- es una tarea permanente. Y en ella el papel de la crítica al sistema es fundamental·.

In this book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. From early commercial capitalism in the Arab world, China, and Europe, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century industrialization, to today's globalized financial capitalism, J�rgen Kocka offers an unmatched account of capitalism, one that weighs its great achievements against its great costs, crises, and failures. Based on intensive research, the book puts the rise of capitalist economies in social, political, and cultural context, and shows how their current problems and foreseeable future are connected to a long history. Sweeping in scope, the book describes how capitalist expansion was connected to colonialism; how industrialism brought unprecedented innovation, growth, and prosperity but also increasing inequality; and how managerialism, financialization, and globalization later changed the face of capitalism. The book also addresses the idea of capitalism in the work of thinkers such as Marx, Weber, and Schumpeter, and chronicles how criticism of capitalism is as old as capitalism itself, fed by its persistent contradictions and recurrent emergencies. Authoritative and accessible, Capitalism is an enlightening account of a force that has shaped the modern world like few others.

Whereas the history of workers and labor movements has been widely researched, the history of work has been rather neglected by comparison. This volume offers original contributions that deal with cultural, social and theoretical aspects of the history of work in modern Europe, including the relations between gender and work, working and soldiering, work and trust, constructions and practices. The volume focuses on Germany but also places the case studies in a broader European context. It thus offers an insight into social and cultural history as practiced by German-speaking scholars today but also introduces the reader to ongoing research in this field.

Das lange 19. Jahrhundert erlebte die Geburt der klassischen Moderne. Es begann bereits mit der Französischen Revolution und endete mit dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Es war die bürgerlichste Epoche der deutschen Geschichte, geprägt von Industrialisierung, Kapitalismus, Nationalismus, Klassenkonflikten und ausgeprägter Ungleichheit der Geschlechter. Es war die Zeit der großen Migrationen und der entstehenden Zivilgesellschaft.

Zusammenfassung: Prima del 2008 il capitalismo sembrava essersi imposto su tutti gli altri sistemi economici, ma le imprevedibili conseguenze della crisi finanziaria ne rimettono in discussione i benefici e gli oneri, le contraddizioni e le potenzialità. Uno dei maggiori esperti a livello mondiale ne descrive l'evoluzione dalle origini all'espansione a livello globale prestando attenzione sia agli aspetti commerciali, industriali e finanziari, sia alle profonde trasformazioni che ha indotto nel mondo del lavoro e nella vita quotidiana. Il volume offre così un'eccellente analisi storica e al contempo critica di quel regime economico che influenza oggi il nostro agire fin nel più remoto angolo del pianeta

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