The Lonely Crowd is considered by many to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. Its now-classic analysis of the 'new middle class' in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political, and economic problems that confront the individual in contemporary American society. The 1969 abridged and revised edition of the book is now reissued with a new foreword by Todd Gitlin that explains why the book is still relevant to our own era.

本书曾被誉为“当代最有影响的著作之一”，是美国社会学家大卫·理斯曼在同事的协助下完成的一部经典学术著作。 本书主旨是讨论美国人社会性格的形成及演变。作者根据传统导向、内在导向和他人导向的社会性格类型对具体的社会阶层——美国中产阶级的性格形成和演变进行了全面阐述。理斯曼认为父母、家庭、学校是性格形成的主要原因，而社会性格最终体现为一定的生活方式，在工作、娱乐、政治生活和子女教育等活动表现出来。 作者着重探讨了19世纪美国占主导地位的内在导向性格如何被20世纪中叶的他人导向性格所取代的过程，研究了这一取代的原因、过程以及对美国当代主要社会生活领域的影响。 本书有助于我们了解、掌握美国人的心理动态和人际关系特点，对研究美国人的性格变动具有一定的借鉴作用。

Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse scholar Douglas Kellner, presents Marcuse's best-selling work to another generation of readers in the context of contemporary events.

我們快樂地選擇了被無聊所奴役？！ 本書可稱為對西方發達工業社會的總體檢。馬庫色作為法蘭克福學派的代表人物之一，學養極為淵博，目光極其銳利。他繼承了馬克思對資本主義的批判，又融入了佛洛依德對文明如何壓抑人類欲望的分析（以彌補馬克思主義無法解釋為什麼革命尚未發生之不足），甚至探索了自亞里士多德以來的西方邏輯學、語言學、科學哲學傳統之缺憾，對當時西方發達工業社會之所以能徹底地支配、剝削社會大眾，阻斷了人們對更公平、更自由的社會的渴望的控制機器，提出了他獨到而深刻的見解。 馬庫色構思本書時，歐美世界上處於悲觀氣氛濃厚的五〇年代，因此書中並未對人類解放的前景抱有正面的期望。然而，或許正因為馬庫色對西方文明系統性的尖銳分析，給予了當時渴望解放的知識分子與學生一盞明燈、一種鼓舞，進而燃起了其後席捲全球的學運風潮。馬庫色在書中最後引用了班雅明的一句話，或許最能反映那股支持他自己與所有革命鬥士的精神： 「因為那些不抱希望的人的緣故，希望才賜予了我們。」 【本書特色】 鼓舞六〇、七〇年代學運風潮的經典代表 「新左派之父」馬庫色的《單向度的人》 萬毓澤審定 & 李明璁導讀 出版已逾五十年的左派經典，全新繁體中文版隆重問世。 擁有投票選擇主人的權利，並不表示你就不是奴隸。 能坐在沙發上任意切換電視頻道，在百貨商場或網購平台比價血拼，在消費場所享受休閒娛樂，你擁有所有這些「選擇」，是否就等同於擁有「自由」？ 難道這不過是發達工業社會的「控制」變得更高明、更細膩、更體貼、更無所不在？它似乎指引一種更舒適美好的生活；但相對，想要改變現有框架的主張、更具超越性的理想和渴望，都被壓抑或嘲諷。我們因此難再深刻地質疑批判，反而認同擁抱那個主宰我們生活的力量，以它的利益和需求為我們自己的利益和需求。表面上越是多采多姿的歌舞升平，骨子裡越是了無生趣的冷感疏離。 於是，你我都可能逐漸變成扁平、蒼白的---單向度的人。 假多元的花花世界，掩飾不了真單調的蒼白困局。 學作一個解放的自由人，從看穿這個陷阱開始。

《有闲阶级论》为美国经济学家、制度经济学鼻祖凡勃伦的代表作之一，于1899年出版。 通过讨论有闲阶级的形成过程及其地位和价值，本书将社会学关注的焦点转移到“消费”之上，完成了里程碑式的研究，也奠定了凡勃伦主要著作的理论基础。 《有闲阶级论》对社会的辛辣批评在当时激起了轩然大波。一百多年后的今天，它对我们理解时下的社会仍不失为绝佳参考。

“出去”，农民工用这个简单的词定义他们的流动生活。“在家没事做，所以我出去了”，出去打工的故事就是这样开始的。 如今，中国有一亿五千万农民工。在南部工厂林立的城市，农民工在拉动国家出口经济的流水线上全力以赴。他们代表了人类历史上最大规模的人口迁移，是一百年来欧洲移民到美国总人数的三倍。 新一代农民工出现的时候，大多数人都认为，迁徙是一条追求更好生活的路。他们比上一辈更年轻，受过更好的教育，外出的动机也更多是因为对城市机会的追求，而不是受农村贫困所迫。 是自尊，而不是恐惧，让他们留在城市。走出家乡并留在外面——出去，就是改变你的命运。 当我想写本关于中国的书时，这个国家的农民工吸引了我——几百万人，离开村庄，去城市工作。直到后来，我才发觉，原来我跟我写到的那些女孩有着那么深的联系。我也离开了家，了解生活在举目无亲的地方那种孤独漂浮的感觉；我亲身感受到人轻易就会消失不见。我也更能理解那种全新开始生活的快乐和自由。 打工女孩的故事有某些共性。在工厂里你很容易迷失自我，那里有成百上千个背景相似的姑娘：在农村出生，没念过什么书，穷。工厂是做什么的从来都不重要，重要的是那份工作带来的艰难或机遇。打工女孩的命运转折点永远是她向老板发难的时候。那一刻她冒着失去一切的风险，从人群中脱颖而出，迫使这个世界将她视为一个个体。 在中国，外出务工已经有二十多个年头，绝大多数外国媒体都报道过工厂内部的恶劣环境，许多写中国农民工的书也并不真实。我希望能写点儿别的，写写工人自己怎么看待外出务工。我尤其对女性感兴趣。背井离乡，她们得到最多，或许失去也最多。

这是一部论述20世纪美国新中产阶级的著作，1951年出版后被誉为“具有远见卓识的启迪之作”。它在首次出版之后的这些年里，成了该领域的经典之作，并不断地吸引着新的读者。 正如霍拉斯·M·卡伦在《纽约时报》上撰文所说，这是“白领金字塔中每一层次的人都值得一读和值得思考的著作。它将使他们能够更好地适应自己的生存环境”。 在阅读了这部有关白领世界的临床式报告之后——现在它对了解20世纪的生活品味和感情至为关键——希尔维亚·波特在《纽约邮报》上撰文指出，“这是我在这些年里读到的最能够激发人们痛苦思索的著作。只有那些天真的傻瓜才会否认其中包含了诸多真理，它足以使人们驻足下来，认真地品坊和聆听。”

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology.This new edition features an introduction by John Bellamy Foster that sets the work in historical and theoretical context, as well as two rare articles by Braverman, "The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century" (1975) and "Two Comments" (1976), that add much to our understanding of the book.

Significant because [it] traces the development process from the non-industrial societies to present-day socialist nations, includes scholars from the first and third worlds, and provides data for a comparative analysis of structural changes in gender relations, links production and reproduction, and redefines work to encompass women's `invisible' work. Gender and Society

This book defends progressive political interventions to erode the gendered division of labor as legitimate exercises of coercive political power. The gendered division of labor is widely regarded as the linchpin of gender injustice. The process of gender equalization in domestic and paid labor allocations has stalled, and a growing number of scholars argue that, absent political intervention, further eroding of the gendered division of labor will not be forthcoming anytime soon. Certain political interventions could jumpstart the stalled gender revolution, but beyond their prospects for effectiveness, such interventions stand in need of another kind of justification. In a diverse, liberal state, reasonable citizens will disagree about what makes for a good life and a good society. Because a fundamental commitment of liberalism is to limit political intrusion into the lives of citizens and allow considerable space for those citizens to act on their own conceptions of the good, questions of legitimacy arise. Legitimacy concerns the constraints we must abide by as we seek collective political solutions to our shared social problems, given that we will disagree, reasonably, both about what constitutes a problem and about what costs we should be willing to incur to fix it. The interventions in question would effectively subsidize gender egalitarian lifestyles at a cost to those who prefer to maintain a traditional gendered division of labor. In a pluralistic, liberal society where many citizens reasonably resist the feminist agenda, can we legitimately use scarce public resources to finance coercive interventions to subsidize gender egalitarianism? This book argues that they can, and moreover, that they can even by the lights of political liberalism, a particularly demanding theory of liberal legitimacy.

The last few decades have witnessed a growing integration of the world system of production on the basis of a new relationship between less developed and highly industrialized countries. The effect is a geographical dispersion of the various production stages in the manufacturing process as the large corporations of industrialized "First World" countries are attracted by low labor costs, taxes, and relaxed production restrictions available in developing countries. This collection of papers focuses on inequalities among different sectors of the labor force, particularly those related to gender, and how these are affected by the changing international division of labor.