El capitalismo cambia. Desde la primera revolución industrial, impulsada por la máquina de vapor y nuevos materiales como el hierro y el algodón, el sistema económico no ha dejado de evolucionar. Hoy está entrando en la última dimensión de este adelanto gracias a las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación e información. Cómo han cambiado los inventos de los últimos años nuestras vidas? Este libro analiza las claves de esta nueva sociedad que apenas empieza: la revolución digital, las nuevas demandas de los consumidores, la globalización o la mundialización.

El capitalismo no ha dejado de evolucionar desde el siglo XIX. Hoy en día se transforma bajo el efecto de dos grandes fuerzas: la globalización financiera y las nuevas tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación. El surgimiento de un nuevo capitalismo consagra la dominación de los accionistas y de los fondos de inversión sobre los administradores y los asalariados.

Libro que analiza las causas que han llevado al debilitamiento de la crítica y al fatalismo dominante en sociedad actual, provocados por los derroteros tomados por el capitalismo en los últimos años.

Latin America has experienced a profound transformation in the first two decades of the 21st century: it has been fully incorporated into the global economy, while excluding regions and populations devalued by the logic of capitalism. Technological modernization has gone hand-in-hand with the reshaping of old identities and the emergence of new ones. The transformation of Latin America has been shaped by social movements and political conflicts. The neoliberal model that dominated the first stage of the transformation induced widespread inequality and poverty, and triggered social explosions that led to its own collapse. A new model, neo-developmentalism, emerged from these crises as national populist movements were elected to government in several countries. The more the state intervened in the economy, the more it became vulnerable to corruption, until the rampant criminal economy came to penetrate state institutions. Upper middle classes defending their privileges and citizens indignant because of corruption of the political elites revolted against the new regimes, undermining the model of neo-developmentalism. In the midst of political disaffection and public despair, new social movements, women, youth, indigenous people, workers, peasants, opened up avenues of hope against the background of darkness invading the continent. This book, written by two leading scholars of Latin America, provides a comprehensive and up-do-date account of the new Latin America that is in the process of taking shape today. It will be an indispensable text for students and scholars in Latin American Studies, sociology, politics and media and communication studies, and anyone interested in Latin America today.

Sennett's brilliant study of the physical fabric of the city as a mirror of Western society and culture was originally published (cloth) in 1990 by Alfred A. Knopf. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR