Journal article
New Subjectivities of Work?: Technologies and Capitalism into the Future
Arena Journal, Vol.51/52, pp.153-176
2018
Abstract
Insecurity is no longer a condition that is specific to a set class of workers; it has become a global issue. It can affect workers of any age, gender or ethnicity, across industrial or service sectors, and even our universities are no longer safe from casualisation, underemployment and outsourcing. To be sure, employment has always had elements of precariousness associated with it, particularly in the primary sectors. However, the steady intensification of capitalism around the world, and its intrusion into almost every facet of human endeavour, has meant that precarious work, as Arne Kalleberg writes, has become much more pervasive and generalized: even professional and managerial jobs are also precarious these days. Our focus in this article is to trace the future of work, and more specifically the future that individual workers face as a result of a tenuous and precarious relationship to work. Our concern with precarity shares a Marxist recognition of instrumentalisation--a concern that individual workers are systematically reduced to mechanised labour and detached from social means.
Details
- Title
- New Subjectivities of Work?: Technologies and Capitalism into the Future
- Authors
- Naomi Smith (Corresponding Author)P Holtum (Author)
- Publication details
- Arena Journal, Vol.51/52, pp.153-176
- Publisher
- Arena Printing and Publications Pty. Ltd
- ISSN
- 1837-2333
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99702398102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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