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Übercapitalism and What Can Be Done About It
- Author(s):
- Gary Hall (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- Advocating for the Humanities, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanists, Political Philosophy & Theory
- Subject(s):
- Critical theory, Education, Higher--Curricula, Capitalism, Labor, Neoliberalism
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- gig economy, Labor Unions, disruption, uber, Critical university studies, Data sharing, Capitalist culture, Precarity, Labour
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6125Q885
- Abstract:
- We live in an increasingly übercapitalist society. It’s übercapitalist in that a specific version of neoliberalism, characterised by low pay, zero-hours and fixed-term contracts, is growing ever more aggressive; and that the disruptive technology firm Uber offers one of the most high-profile examples of this intensified form of deregulated capitalism in which work is becoming low in quality but high in risk and stress. Yet just as business is innovating so we need to invent new strains of unionisation. This short chapter from the UCU Branch Solidarity Network handbook, The University Is Ours: How To Build An Activist Union Branch, explores how we can develop new forms of solidarity and collective bargaining in the context of übercapitalism.
- Notes:
- 'Übercapitalism and What Can Be Done About It' was written for The University Is Ours: How To Build An Activist Union Branch, a handbook for activists put together by Des Freedman and Susan Kelly for the UCU Branch Solidarity Network, and published in October 2018. The whole handbook can be downloaded for free here: https://ucubranchsolidaritynetwork.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/solidarity-guide20.pdf
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter Show details
- Publisher:
- UCU Branch Solidarity Network
- Pub. Date:
- October 2018
- Book Title:
- The University Is Ours: How To Build An Activist Union Branch
- Author/Editor:
- Des Freedman and Susan Kelly
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All-Rights-Granted
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