What will we do? the destruction of occupational identities in the 'knowledge-based economy'

Monthly Review

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 19-34

  Huws, Ursula ^a,b  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Research Consultancy Analytica

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EID: 31944450582     PISSN: 00270520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14452/MR-057-08-2006-01_2     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. http://www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/castejati-varna. html, May 27, 2005.
2. Gøsta Esping-Anderson, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990).
3. I am indebted to Markus Promberger (e-mail correspondence, May 31, 2005) for pointing out the historical importance of occupationally defined elites in the German trade union movement.
4. For a more detailed explication of the commodification process see Ursula Huws, The Making of a Cybertaríat: Virtual Work in a Real World (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2003).
5. Jill Rubery & Frank Wilkinson, Labour Market Structure, Industrial Organisation and low Pay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
6. David Coates, Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era (Cambridge/ Polity Press, 2000).
7. Adapted from Rosemary Crompton & Kay Sanderson, Gendered Jobs and Social Change (London: Unwin Hyman, 1990).
8. Hans Georg Zilian, "Welfare and employment flexibility within the new labour market," paper presented at Labour and Welfare in Europe in the Information Economy: Is there a danger of digital divide? Workshop, LAW Project, March 1, 2005, Brussels.
9. http://info.worldbank.org/etools/kam2005/index.htm
10. I am indebted to Yigit Kargin for bringing this to my attention.
11. http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/cha/cl1053.htm
12. Ursula Huws, Jörg Flecker, & Simone Dahlmann, Outsourcing of ICT and Related Services in the EU, European Monitoring Centre for Change, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin, December, 2004.