The Making of a Cybertariat
Subtitle: Virtual Work in a Real World
Contributors: Colin Leys (Foreword)
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: July 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781583670873
Subjects: Impact of computing & IT on society; Office & workplace; Women's studies; Workplace Culture; Information society; Effect of technological innovations on; Computers; Technology & Industrial Arts; Computer Books: General; Social Aspects; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Business & Economics / Office Automation; EMPLOYEES_EFFECT OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS ON; Effect of technological innova; General; Employees; Quality of work life
First sentence: The history of manufacturing industry over the past 250 years or so can be seen, very crudely, as the removal, one after another, of tasks performed for nothing in the home to the marketplace, where they become paid jobs, performed not for use but for exchange.