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1 online resource |
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. WHAT WILL WE DO? The Destruction of Occupational Identities in the Knowledge-Based Economy; 2. FIXED, FOOTLOOSE, OR FRACTURED: Work, Identity, and the Spatial Division of Labor in the Twenty-First-Century City; 3. BEGGING AND BRAGGING: The Self and the Commodification of Intellectual Activity; 4. THE GLOBALIZATION OF LABOR AND THE ROLE OF NATIONAL GOVERMENTS: Toward a Conceptual Framework; 5. EXPRESSION AND EXPROPRIATION: The Dialectics of Autonomy and Control in Creative Labor |
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6. CRISIS AS CAPITALIST OPPORTUNITY: The New Accumulation through Public Service Commodification7. THE UNDERPINNINGS OF CLASS IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Living, Labor, and Value; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Summary |
For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It's a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is also the key to understanding its driving force: the relentless impulse to commodify our lives in every aspect. Ursula Huws ties together disparate economic, cultural, and political phenomena of the last few decades to form a provocative narrative about the shape of the global capitalist economy at present. She examin |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Information technology -- Social aspects
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Capitalism -- Social aspects
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Work -- Social aspects
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Marxian economics.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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LAW -- Media & the Law.
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Capitalism -- Social aspects
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Information technology -- Social aspects
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Marxian economics
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Work -- Social aspects
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Arbeitswelt
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Arbeitssoziologie
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Globalisierung
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Sozioökonomischer Wandel
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Informationstechnik
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1583674659 |
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9781583674659 |
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1583674632 |
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9781583674635 |
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