Cutting Edge: Technology, Information Capitalism and Social Revolution

ISBN-13: 9781859841853 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 316 str.

Jim Davis; Michael Stack; Thomas A. Hirschl

Opis

Bringing together contributions from workers employed in the new electronics and information industries with work from theorists and economics, politics and science, this title provides an up-to-date analysis of the complex relations between technology and work. Individual essays look at topics including the cyclical nature of a technologically-driven economy, the privatization of knowledge which new information industries demand, and the strategies which trade unionists and governments might deploy to potect jobs and living standards.