Recoding power : tactics for mobilizing tech workers / Sidney A. Rothstein.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (xii, 268 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197612903Subject(s): Computer industry -- Employees -- Supply and demand | High technology industries -- Employees -- Supply and demand | Industry
| EconomicsAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197612873DDC classification: 331.1191004 LOC classification: HD8039.C6522Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This text outlines tactics that workers can use to build power in the current episode of economic transition. As rich capitalist democracies increasingly embrace digital transformation as a strategy to drive economic growth, policymakers have dismantled labor's traditional power-resources - especially institutions for social protection & the unions that support & enforce them - leaving workers on their own to defend against rising economic inequality & spreading precarity. Moreover, with the ascendance of financialization, managers have adopted the discourse of market fundamentalism, which is effective at persuading workers that building power is impossible. 'Recoding Power' draws on four case studies of mass layoffs at tech firms in the US & Germany to show how workers can develop creative tactics to 'recode' management's discursive techniques for control.
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Also issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text outlines tactics that workers can use to build power in the current episode of economic transition. As rich capitalist democracies increasingly embrace digital transformation as a strategy to drive economic growth, policymakers have dismantled labor's traditional power-resources - especially institutions for social protection & the unions that support & enforce them - leaving workers on their own to defend against rising economic inequality & spreading precarity. Moreover, with the ascendance of financialization, managers have adopted the discourse of market fundamentalism, which is effective at persuading workers that building power is impossible. 'Recoding Power' draws on four case studies of mass layoffs at tech firms in the US & Germany to show how workers can develop creative tactics to 'recode' management's discursive techniques for control.
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