The Law and Courts of Enlightened Localism

Gregg, Benjamin

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“…With sagging wages and rising insecurity, it is easy to see why the pressure to work – no matter what – is more apparent when the workforce is Uberized in this manner. For example, Gregg’s (2011) study of freelance workers in Australia highlights the long hours of work involved in order to make ends meet. Human capital theory is clearly influential here.…”

Section: The Poverty Of Human Capital Theorymentioning

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“…In addition to overwork, another important consequence arises when employment is organized this way: unpaid work . Gregg (2011) found that when economy and life become one (the ultimate datum of human capital theory), people find themselves working on their own time, say on Sunday night in order to prepare for a Monday morning meeting. Work colonizes everything else since life as such (Gary Becker even includes our choice of romantic partner) is nothing but a set of commercial transactions.…”

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The Human Capital Hoax: Work, Debt and Insecurity in the Era of Uberization

Fleming

2017

Organization Studies

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. This essay argues the opposite. Human capital theory implies that employees should bear the costs (and benefits) of their investment. Highly individualized training and work practices are an inevitable corollary. Self-employment, portfolio careers, the 'gig economy' and ondemand business models (including Uber and Deliveroo) faithfully reflect the assumptions that inform human capital theory. I term this the radical responsibilization of the workforce and link it to growing economic insecurity, low productivity, diminished autonomy and worrying levels of personal debt. The essay concludes by proposing some possible solutions. Permanent repository link

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Section: The Poverty Of Human Capital Theorymentioning

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Section: The Poverty Of Human Capital Theorymentioning

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The Human Capital Hoax: Work, Debt and Insecurity in the Era of Uberization

Fleming

2017

Organization Studies

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“…Intimacy and affect are not merely the domain of the private and individual but are connected to relations of power embedded in colonial, imperial and white supremacist historical geographies. Infrastructures must then be understood as part of the affective politics (Gould 2009) of cities which produce the political and economic conditions under which people live (Berlant 2011; Clough 2010; Gregg 2011).…”

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Infrastructural Activism: Google Bus Blockades, Affective Politics, and Environmental Gentrification in San Francisco

Maharawal

2021

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Between 2013 and 2018, the San Francisco Bay Area saw the rise of “Google bus blockades”—a form of protest against gentrification, growing inequality and a housing crisis linked to the economic impacts of the technology sector on the region. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork with housing activists in the San Francisco Bay Area, this article argues that the disruptive tactic of “the Google Bus blockade” can be understood as a form of infrastructural activism—a flexible political form that uses the interruption of infrastructure for political ends. The blockades politicised the “Google buses” and transformed them into symbols of gentrification and sites of resistance. Protestors constructed a political analysis that drew connections between struggles for housing, racial and environmental justice and brought together material, affective and political critiques of infrastructure.

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“…Much of the intimacy of work discussed by Gregg (2011), emotional intensity of the affective labour associated with our contemporary working life (Ekman, 2012), and the regime of affective capitalism (Sampson, 2012;Negishi, 2012;Parikka, 2013) is tightly intertwined with the use of information within, and with a broad variety of information technologies and new orders of informing ourselves and the others. Globalised contemporary society is characterised by the "central role of knowledge, information, affect and communication" (Schirato and Webb, 2003, 76-77) and an amalgam of cybernetic forms of capitalism that incorporate informationalism and affective capitalism (Peters et al, 2009).…”

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Affective capitalism of knowing and the society of search engine

Huvila

2016

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Purpose: This article discusses the affective premises and economics of the influence of search engines on knowing and informing in the contemporary society. Design/methodology/approach: A conceptual discussion of affective the premises and framings of the capitalist economics of knowing is presented. Findings:The main proposition of this text is that the exploitation of affects is entwined in the competing market and emancipatory discourses and counterdiscourses both as intentional interventions, and perhaps even more significantly, as unintentional influences that shape the ways of knowing in the peripheries of the regime that shape cultural constellations of their own. Affective capitalism bounds and frames our ways of knowing in ways that are difficult to anticipate and read even from the context of the regime itself. Originality/value: In the relatively extensive discussion on the role of affects in the contemporary capitalism, influence of affects on knowing and their relation to search engine use has received little explicit attention so far.

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The Law and Courts of Enlightened Localism

Cited by 11 publications

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The Human Capital Hoax: Work, Debt and Insecurity in the Era of Uberization

The Human Capital Hoax: Work, Debt and Insecurity in the Era of Uberization

Infrastructural Activism: Google Bus Blockades, Affective Politics, and Environmental Gentrification in San Francisco

Affective capitalism of knowing and the society of search engine

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