Making our society desirable requires tackling two major projects in parallel: dismantling the sum of false ideas about work, employment, the welfare state. And clearly lay the foundations for the future in a world undergoing ecological reconversion in the face of climate change. It is to this work that Dominique Méda works through sixty short and incisive chapters.
It shows how a set of beliefs was imposed on citizens: there would be no alternative to neoliberalism and the spirit of competition, the French would be lazy, young people would no longer want to work, insurance beneficiaries -unemployment would be fraudsters. Positive and constructive, the sociologist proposes to change representations, to impose new value systems, and concretely responds to the challenges that confront us in terms of social equality, women/men relationships and artificial intelligence. , use of science and post-growth.
Recognized specialist in social and employment policies, Dominique Méda is professor of sociology at Paris Dauphine-PSL and directs the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences (IRISSO). She is the author of numerous works, including What is wealth? et The Mystic of Growth.
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