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A job is no longer something we do, but instead something we are. This book insists that many jobs in the West are now regulated by a new matrix of power-biopower - where life itself is put to work through our ability to self-organize around formal rules.

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Why Work? 1 Come as You Are: The New Corporate Enclosure Movement 2 Common Matters 3 Why the Corporation Does Not Work: A Brief History 4 Corporate Culture and the Coming Bioproletariat 5 “Free Work” Capitalism 6 How to Resist Work Today Conclusion: Working after Neoliberalism Notes References Index

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      Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: 30/05/2014
      ISBN13: 9781439911129, 978-1439911129
      ISBN10: 1439911126
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      Labour / income economics Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A job is no longer something we do, but instead something we are. This book insists that many jobs in the West are now regulated by a new matrix of power-biopower - where life itself is put to work through our ability to self-organize around formal rules.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction: Why Work? 1 Come as You Are: The New Corporate Enclosure Movement 2 Common Matters 3 Why the Corporation Does Not Work: A Brief History 4 Corporate Culture and the Coming Bioproletariat 5 “Free Work” Capitalism 6 How to Resist Work Today Conclusion: Working after Neoliberalism Notes References Index

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