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Seymour Melman

"After Capitalism is the apex of the life's work of one of the most respected scholars of the American workplace. For nearly half a century, Seymour Melman has been an influential commentator on capitalism, militarism and their discontents. In After Capitalism he explores a growing trend in capitalist systems worldwide: workplace democracy. The end of the Cold War in 1991 inspired an unprecedented outburst of triumphalist rhetoric among proponents of unfettered capitalism. Free-marketeers believed that we were witnessing the 'end of history,' and proclaimed that the market economy was here to stay, that all alternatives had been proven inferior. Melman, in dissent, tracks the increasing social and economic inequities and the resulting cries for workplace reform." [from the dust jacket]