[PDF] Politicising Commodification eBook

Author : Roland Erne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1316511634

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Analyses the EU's post-2008 economic governance regime and the labour protests it triggered that threw a lifeline to EU democracy.

Author : Roland Erne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 1009062395

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This book examines the new economic governance (NEG) regime that the EU adopted after 2008. Its novel research design captures the supranational formulation of NEG prescriptions and their uneven deployment across countries (Germany, Italy, Ireland, Romania), policy areas (employment relations, public services), and sectors (transport, water, healthcare). NEG led to a much more vertical mode of EU integration, and its commodification agenda unleashed a plethora of union and social-movement protests, including transnationally. The book presents findings that are crucial for the prospects of European democracy, as labour politics is essential in framing the struggles about the direction of NEG along a commodification–decommodification axis rather than a national–EU axis. To shed light on corresponding processes at EU level, it upscales insights on the historical role that labour movements have played in the development of democracy and welfare states. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Gordon Laxer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781551117522

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"A thorough and challenging book." - Maude Barlow, National Chairperson, Council of Canadians

Author : Martha Ertman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 2005-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814722296

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In a world that is often ruled by buyers and sellers, those things that are often considered priceless become objects to be marketed and from which to earn a profit.

Author : Balihar Sanghera
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000603210

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This book is a collection of critical engagements with Andrew Sayer, one of the foremost postdisciplinary thinkers of our times, with responses from Sayer himself. Sayer’s ground-breaking contributions to the fields of geography, political economy and social theory have reshaped the terms of engagement with issues and debates running from the methodology of social science through to the environment, and industrial development to the ethical dimensions of everyday life. Transatlantic scholars across a wide range of fields explore his work across four main areas: critical realism; moral economy; political economy; and relations between social theory, normativity and class. This is the first full-length critical assessment of Sayer’s work. It will be of interest to readers in sociology, economics, political economy, social and political philosophy, ethics, social policy, geography and urban studies, from upper-undergraduate levels upwards.

Author : Dia Da Costa
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252082108

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Scholars increasingly view the arts, creativity, and the creative economy as engines for regenerating global citizenship, renewing decayed local economies, and nurturing a new type of all-inclusive politics. Dia Da Costa delves into these ideas with a critical ethnography of two activist performance groups in India: the Communist-affiliated Jana Natya Manch, and Bhutan Theatre, a community-based group of the indigenous Chhara people. As Da Costa shows, commodification, heritage, and management discussions inevitably creep into performance. Yet the ability of performance to undermine such subtle invasions make street theater a crucial site for considering what counts as creativity in the cultural politics of creative economy. Da Costa explores the precarious lives, livelihoods, and ideologies at the intersection of heritage projects, planning discourse, and activist performance. By analyzing the creators, performers, and activists involved--individuals at the margins of creative economy as well as society--Da Costa builds a provocative argument. Their creative economy practices may survive, challenge, and even reinforce the economies of death, displacement, and divisiveness used by the urban poor to survive.

Author : Rod Giblett
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Computers
ISBN :

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This lively new study is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet, in which Rod Giblett argues that these technologies play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime.

Author : Jonathan Nitzan
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 38,17 MB
Release : 2002-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780745316758

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The debate about globalisation and its discontents