Resisting work [electronic resource] : the corporatization of life and its discontents / Peter Fleming.

Resisting work [electronic resource] : the corporatization of life and its discontents / Peter Fleming.

9781439911143 electronic book
9781439911129

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2014.

©2014

English

1 online resource (218 pages)

HD2351 .F546 2014eb

306.3/6

A job is no longer something we "do", but instead something we "are". As the boundaries between work and non-work have dissolved, we restructure ourselves and our lives using social ingenuity to get things done and be resourceful outside the official workday. In this book, the author 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. This neoliberal system of employment tries to absorb our life attributes, from our consumer tastes, downtime, and sexuality, into employment so that questions of human capital and resources replace questions of employee, worker, and labor. Here the author suggests that the corporation then turns to communal life, what he calls "the common", in order to reproduce itself and reinforce corporate culture. Yet a resistance against this new definition of work is in effect, and he shows how it may already be taking shape. -- From publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access limited to authorized users.

Description based on print version record.

Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources