The document discusses several topics related to changes in the modern economy including the decline of manufacturing, the rise of the service economy, the focus on branding and experiences over products, the need for workers to empower themselves and abandon traditional ideas of employment, sources of stress and their impact on different groups, and debates around meritocracy and the justification of inequality.

1. Today’s Work

4. <Where have all the Factories gone?

7. <Are services really different from manufacturing?>

8. “ Bind & Lash”

10. “ Mind & Cash”

13. <Survival in the ‘Experience Economy’?

15. Disney-isation?

18. “ According to Tom Peters, just as companies must reach branding nirvana by learning to let go of manufacturing and employment, so must individual workers empower themselves by abandoning the idea of being employees ” Klein, No Logo , p.252

20. <What about Stress today?>

22. Who’s more stressed? Women or men?

24. Generation

25. Thursdays, 8.30-9.00pm

26. Group Work!

28. <The Meritocracy Debate>

29. “… (since) merit now allegedly explains inequalities, there is no limit to how much inequality can be justified.” Grint, p.348