Does digital transformation make worker power impossible? Many seem
to think so, especially those who see the Silicon Valley model as
the best chance for economic growth in the twenty-first century. If
economic growth requires deregulating markets for labor and finance
capital, then labor's traditional power resources - especially
institutions for social protection and the unions that support and
enforce them - need to be dismantled. Rising inequality and
spreading precarity are therefore inevitable and unavoidable in a
world where workers cannot defend against employer discretion. In
Recoding Power, Rothstein argues that worker power is possible in
digital transformation, and outlines three tactics that workers can
use in order to defend against precarity. Tracing how workers
respond to mass layoffs at four tech firms in the United States and
Germany, Rothstein shows that workers can build power in
twenty-first century capitalism when they put workplace discourse
at the center of their tactics for collective action. Close
analysis of struggles in the workplace uncovers the creative
tactics workers can develop to "recode" management's discourse in
order to recognize the possibility of power and mobilize to
transform that possibility into reality. By centering workers'
lived experiences in the workplace, Recoding Power develops an
account of actually existing digital transformation, illustrating
how the path of capitalist development is shaped not by economic
necessity, but by political creativity.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
June 2023 |
| Authors: |
Sidney A. Rothstein
(Assistant Professor of Political Science)
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
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| Pages: |
288 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-761287-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-19-761287-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780197612873 |
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