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Does man have no choice of action in the face of such circumstances? We can answer these questions from experience as well as on principle. The experiences of camp life show that man does have a choice of action. There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed. Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
The globalization optimists overlook another series of questions. If globalization has long been a fact – for example, in the dimension of finance markets – does this new basic situation have the same consequences, the same opportunities and risks, for both capital and labour? Does the global economy promote or generate a ‘global labour market’, in the sense that job-seekers are or may become as mobile as ‘financial flows’? Can a globally oriented and organized labour movement ever take up position opposite a globally oriented and organized capital?
The Brave New World of Work
Ulrich Beck
While at that time some people referred to ‘attacks’ on free enterprise, Rockefeller preferred to talk about ‘criticisms’. This would give us a first precept: to translate attacks into criticism.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
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