Texts
| The following are available at the campus bookstore and on reserve at the library. If you obtain these books elsewhere, be sure that their ISBN numbers or edition match those listed below. Other readings will be made available in class or on Blackboard. |
Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005. ISBN: 0374292884.
Daniel Bell, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society.
Basic Books, 1999 (Special anniversary ed.) ISBN: 0465097138.
Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class.
Basic Books, 2004. ISBN: 0465024777.
Simon Head, The New Ruthless Economy.
Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0195179838.
Zygmunt Bauman, Work, Consumerism & the New Poor.
Open University Press, 1998. ISBN: 033521598X.
Eric Brende, Switched Off.
Perennial, 2005. ISBN: 0060570059.