Download or read book Work Without the Worker written by Phil Jones and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible analysis of the new forms of work whose seismic changes will increasingly determine the future of capitalism Automation and the decline in industrial employment have lead to rising fears of a workless future. But what happens when your work itself is the thing that will make your job obsolete? In the past few years, online crowdworking platforms - like Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Clickworker - have become an increasingly important source of work, particularly for those in the Global South. Here, small tasks are assigned to people online, and are often used to train algorithms to spot patterns, patterns through machine learning those same algorithms will then be able to spot more effectively than humans. Used for everything from the mechanics of self-driving cars to Google image search, this is an increasingly powerful part of the digital ecomomy. But what happens to work when it makes itself obsolete. In this stimulating work that blends political economy, studies of contemporary work, and speculations on the future of capitalism, Phil Jones looks at what this often murky and hidden form of labour looks like, and what it says about the state of global capitalism.
Download or read book Labour and Value Rethinking Marx s Theory of Exploitation written by Ernesto Screpanti and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Ernesto Screpanti provides a rigorous examination of Marx’s theory of exploitation, one of the cornerstones of Marxist thought. With precision and clarity, he identifies the holes in traditional readings of Marx’s theory before advancing his own original interpretation, drawing on contemporary philosophy and economic theory to provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exegesis. Screpanti’s arguments are delivered with perspicuity and verve: this is a book that aims to spark a debate. He exposes ambiguities present in Marx’s exposition of his own theory, especially when dealing with the employment contract and the notions of ‘abstract labor’ and ‘labor value’, and he argues that these ambiguities have given rise to misunderstandings in previous analyses of Marx’s theory of exploitation. Screpanti’s own interpretation is a meticulously argued counterpoint to these traditional interpretations. Labour and Value is a significant contribution to the theory of economics, particularly Marxist economics. It will also be of great interest to scholars in other disciplines including sociology, political science, and moral and political philosophy. Screpanti’s clear and engaging writing style will attract the interested general reader as well as the academic theorist.
Download or read book Lectures on the Industrial Revolution of the 18th Century in England written by Arnold Toynbee and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Principles of Political Economy written by John Stuart Mill and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Text Book of Modern Documentary Chinese for the Special Use of the Chinese Customs Service written by Friedrich Hirth and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Capital and Labour written by Charles Knight and published by London, C. Knight & Company. This book was released on 1845 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Labour of Literature in Britain and France 1830 1910 written by Marcus Waithe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the anxieties that caused many nineteenth-century writers to insist on literature as a laboured and labouring enterprise. Following Isaac D’Israeli’s gloss on Jean de La Bruyère, it asks, in particular, whether writing should be ‘called working’. Whereas previous studies have focused on national literatures in isolation, this volume demonstrates the two-way traffic between British and French conceptions of literary labour. It questions assumed areas of affinity and difference, beginning with the labour politics of the early nineteenth century and their common root in the French Revolution. It also scrutinises the received view of France as a source of a ‘leisure ethic’, and of British writers as either rejecting or self-consciously mimicking French models. Individual essays consider examples of how different writers approached their work, while also evoking a broader notion of ‘work ethics’, understood as a humane practice, whereby values, benefits, and responsibilities, are weighed up.
Download or read book Essays on Rural Economy written by Robert Hutchison and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La main d oeuvre aux colonies written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Village Labourer 1760 1832 written by John Lawrence Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The African Labourer written by Granville St. John Orde-Browne and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of employment policies and practices affecting African workers in Africa south of Sahara - covers historical developments, foreign influences, Motivation and alternatives to wages-earning, forced labour, recruitment methods, labour contracts, identification of the worker, sanctions for offenders against contracts and laws, living conditions, the woman worker, child labour, etc., and includes comments on relevant labour legislation and draft ILO Conventions. Map.
Download or read book Wages and Conditions of Employment in Agriculture written by Great Britain. Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Parliamentary Debates official Report written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interpreting the Labour Party written by John Callaghan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Interpreting the Labour Party consists of twelve essays on the principal thinkers and schools of thought concerned with the political and historical development of the Labour Party and Labour movement. The essays are written by contributors who have devoted many years to the study of the Labour Party, the trade union movement and the various ideologies associated with them. The book begins with an in-depth analysis of how to study the Labour Party, and goes on to examine key periods in the development of the ideologies to which the party has subscribed. Each chapter situates its subject matter in the context of a broader intellectual legacy, including the works of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Theodore Rothstein, Stuart Hall and Samuel Beer, among others.
Download or read book A Short History of the Labour Party written by Henry Pelling and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an introductory account of the Labour Party from its foundation. It not only covers the period up to and including the election of Neil Kinnock as the leader of the Labour Party but also concentrates on the problems of the parliamentary leadership.
Download or read book Gender Place and the Labour Market written by Sarah Jenkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although research on the labour market has remained central to the development of work on gender in geography, there has been an absence of texts on the importance of space in relation to employment. This volume explores the geography of women's participation in the UK labour market and centres on the importance of work-home interdependencies and factors which both influence women's decision-making processes and contribute to the formation of their perceived societal role. The book draws on interviews with individual women about the influential factors in deciding whether or not they participate in the formal labour market. It highlights the importance of social and cultural factors in addition to the availability of jobs in the local economy in influencing labour market participation. It also compares the choices the Government claims to provide with the choices individual women feel they have when it comes to negotiating their everyday lives.
Download or read book The Labour Party Since 1979 written by Eric u University of Stirling Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Labour Party since 1979: Crisis and Transformation challenges the claim that Labour's only real hope for the future lies in shedding its ideological baggage. It rejects the notion taht the 'shadow budget' was the prime cause of its 1992 defeat and argues that the strategyof seeking an image of 'responsibility' and 'respectability' - which under the new leadership has become a paramount concern - does not offer the best route forward for the party. The effect of this strategy - of abandoning traditional tenets, and adopting a policy profile more to the tastes of its critics in business and the media - will be to deprive Labour of its sheet-anchor; and even if successful electorally, the price will be that the hopes and aspirations of its supporters will be highly unlikely to be fulfilled.
