Recoding power : tactics for mobilizing tech workers / Sidney A. Rothstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothstein, Sidney A., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

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.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Rothstein, Sidney A. Recoding Power

ISBN:

0-19-761290-3

0-19-761289-X

0-19-761288-1