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Peter Fleming - Resisting Work: The Corporatization of Life and Its Discontents - 9781439911129 - V9781439911129
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Resisting Work: The Corporatization of Life and Its Discontents

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Description for Resisting Work: The Corporatization of Life and Its Discontents Hardback. A job is no longer something we "do," but instead something we "are." This book 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. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 172 x 20. Weight in Grams: 374.

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 his provocative book, Resisting Work Peter Fleming 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 ... Read more

 

Fleming then suggests that the corporation 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 Fleming shows how it may already be taking shape.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439911129
SKU
V9781439911129
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Peter Fleming
Peter Fleming is Professor of Business and Society at Cass Business School, City University, London. He is the co-author of several books, including Contesting the Corporation: Struggle, Power and Resistance in Organizations (with André Spicer), Dead Man Working (with Carl Cederström), and The End of Corporate Social Responsibility: Crisis and Critique (with Marc T. Jones). 

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