The Making of a Cybertariat - by Ursula Huws (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Within advanced capitalist countries, the workplace has been made more "flexible" through cellphones, e-mail, freelancing, and outsourcing. The same process often makes the situation of the worker more precarious. Ursula Huws's Making of a Cybertariat examines this process from a number of perspectives.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The workplace has been changed in recent decades by the rise of digital technologies. Parts of a single labor process can be moved around the world, with implications not only for individual workplaces, but for the working class as a whole.<br> Within advanced capitalist countries, the workplace has been made more flexible through cell phones, e-mail, freelancing, and outsourcing. The process often makes the situation of the workers more precarious, as they are forced to pay for the tools of their trade, are expected to be constantly accessible to workplace demands, and are isolated from their fellow workers.<br> Huws' <b>The Making of a Cybertariat</b> examines this process from a number of perspectives, including those of women in the workplace and at home. It explores changing categories of employment and modes of organization, and how new divisions of race and gender are created in the process. It questions how the virtual workforce can identify their common interests and stand together to struggle for them.<br> <b>The Making of a Cybertariat</b> is both a testament to the author's remarkable record in the politics of technology over several decades and a vital resource for grasping ongoing debates and controversies in this field.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>These essays chart the transformation of work and technology with an acute theoretical originality. Ursula Huws has the rare ability to cut through existing abstract models with a clarity based on an immense practical understanding. The implications of <em>The Making of a Cybertariat</em> are far reaching in rethinking a radical strategy for the future.</p><p>--Sheila Rowbotham, author of <em>Promise of a Dream, Women, Resistance, and Revolution</em> and <em>Hidden from History</em></p><p>The moments when a fresh impulse is given to the social sciences by an original spirit deserve to be celebrated, and making the feminist political economy of Ursula Huws available to a wider public is such a moment.</p><p>--Colin Leys, emeritus professor of Queen's University, Ontario</p><p>Author of <em>Market-Driven Politics</em></p><p>Ursula Huws is without peer as an analyst of life in contemporary capitalism. Her range of knowledge and experience is breathtaking. . . . Her ability to understand the revolution in microeletronic technology and connect it to the transformations of work, the restructuring of gender and class, and the commodification of every facet of social life exemplifies what feminist political economy can do at its very best. . . . Not only a truly educational experience but also a thoroughly enjoyable one.</p><p>--Leo Panitch, Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy York University, Toronto</p><p>Huws is in the myth-busting business. She does it with razor-sharp analysis and wit.</p><p>--Joan Greenbaum, professor of Computer Information Systems, LaGuardia Community College and author of <em>Windows on the Workplace</em></p><br>
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