Friday, December 13, 2013

Inhuman & dysfunctional political/economic system of the West.

This book review is captioned “Working to re-humanize work” by the reviewer. 

The political and economic system takes the blame for the de-humanization of work. Unless the system is changed, humanizing work/management will be elusive.
For Indians, the existing political & economic  systems they find themselves in, are of foreign origin.
Why must  we Indians carry ‘their’ cross?

It is also to be noted that the company Mondragón Corporation, belonging to the co-operative sector and mentioned in this review  is of Spanish origin. Sometime back I had  in my blog-page highlighted “Rethinking Our Concept of WORK” written by a Spanish Professor Shri Argandonna, from the University of  Navarra in Spain.http://msradha.blogspot.in/2013/11/rethinking-our-concept-of-work-about.html  Looks like the Spanish may steal the show from Indians, with respect to organizing life and work on a sane foundation.

I think the Village economic system that had prevailed here (India), was more refined that the co-operative system. The key-stone of the Indian material life was dependent on Karma-Yoga. In the name of ‘false/pseudo  secularistic  behavior’ especially in public, we are keeping away this valuable science from our younger generation. Unless it is given importance in the educational institutions, or in public discourse, whatever cajoling we do at home fails to impress the youngsters. But then there is the danger due to overexposure, because the subject-matter may become profane. Krishna/Vyasa was very specific that unless an individual shows respectful interest, the subject/knowledge should not be revealed to him. Gita 18:67



Now the book review :-

TODAY'S PAPER » FEATURES » BOOK REVIEW
December 10, 2013
Working to rehumanise work   Book review by ARVIND SIVARAMAKRISHNAN
(Words in Brackets and in  italics are comments made by me)
A study that has the courage to say ordinary people must be trusted to organise their own work













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