Against the Troika / Heiner Flassbeck

Public ISBD Titre : Against the Troika : Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Heiner Flassbeck, Auteur ; Costas Lapavitsas, Auteur ; Oskar Lafontaine, Auteur Editeur : Verso Année de publication : 2015 Importance : 144 p Langues : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : 09.05 Europe Résumé : As Syriza comes to power in Greece, a radical anti-capitalist alternative to Eurozone austerity. On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance - not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and austerity and the neoliberal agenda is being challenged. Suddenly it seems as if there is an alternative. But what? The Eurozone is in a deep and prolonged crisis. It is now clear that monetary union is a historic failure, beyond repair—and certainly not in the interests of Europe’s working people. Against the Troika : Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone [texte imprimé] / Heiner Flassbeck, Auteur ; Costas Lapavitsas, Auteur ; Oskar Lafontaine, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Verso, 2015 . - 144 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : 09.05 Europe Résumé : As Syriza comes to power in Greece, a radical anti-capitalist alternative to Eurozone austerity. On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance - not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and austerity and the neoliberal agenda is being challenged. Suddenly it seems as if there is an alternative. But what? The Eurozone is in a deep and prolonged crisis. It is now clear that monetary union is a historic failure, beyond repair—and certainly not in the interests of Europe’s working people.

The threat to reason / Dan Hind

Public ISBD Titre : The threat to reason : how the enlightment was hijacked and how we can reclaim it Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Dan Hind, Auteur Editeur : Verso Année de publication : 2008 Importance : 198 p Note générale : 01.HIN Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Politique économique Tags : Politique économique  Etat  Entreprises  Industrie pharmaceutique  Science Index. décimale : 01 - Economie Résumé : In exploring how the Enlightenment continues to operate as a powerful guiding principle in Western politics, "The Threat to Reason" reveals how the truly pressing threats to free inquiry reside within the allegedly enlightened institutions of state and corporation. In recovering the concept of Enlightenment from its self-appointed defenders, "The Threat to Reason" demonstrates its crucial importance to a truly democratic politics, rather than a political performance in which we remain merely spectators. The threat to reason : how the enlightment was hijacked and how we can reclaim it [texte imprimé] / Dan Hind, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Verso, 2008 . - 198 p. 01.HIN Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Politique économique Tags : Politique économique  Etat  Entreprises  Industrie pharmaceutique  Science Index. décimale : 01 - Economie Résumé : In exploring how the Enlightenment continues to operate as a powerful guiding principle in Western politics, "The Threat to Reason" reveals how the truly pressing threats to free inquiry reside within the allegedly enlightened institutions of state and corporation. In recovering the concept of Enlightenment from its self-appointed defenders, "The Threat to Reason" demonstrates its crucial importance to a truly democratic politics, rather than a political performance in which we remain merely spectators.

Work without the worker / Phil Jones

Public ISBD Titre : Work without the worker : Labour in the age of platform capitalism Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Phil Jones, Auteur Editeur : Verso Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 134 p Note générale : 01.03 JON Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Numérique Conditions de travail Tags : Numérique  GAFAM  Travail de plateforme Index. décimale : 01.03 - Economie digitale Résumé : We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new world of effortless labour and a post-work utopia of ever expanding leisure. But behind the gleaming surface stands millions of workers, often in the Global South, manually processing data for a pittance. Recent years have seen a boom in online crowdworking platforms like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and Clickworker, and these have become an increasingly important source of work for millions of people. And it is these badly paid tasks, not algorithms, that make our digital lives possible. Used to process data for everything from the mechanics of self-driving cars to Google image search, this is an increasingly powerful part of the new digital economy, although one hidden and rarely spoken of. Work without the worker : Labour in the age of platform capitalism [texte imprimé] / Phil Jones, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Verso, 2021 . - 134 p. 01.03 JON Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Numérique Conditions de travail Tags : Numérique  GAFAM  Travail de plateforme Index. décimale : 01.03 - Economie digitale Résumé : We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new world of effortless labour and a post-work utopia of ever expanding leisure. But behind the gleaming surface stands millions of workers, often in the Global South, manually processing data for a pittance. Recent years have seen a boom in online crowdworking platforms like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and Clickworker, and these have become an increasingly important source of work for millions of people. And it is these badly paid tasks, not algorithms, that make our digital lives possible. Used to process data for everything from the mechanics of self-driving cars to Google image search, this is an increasingly powerful part of the new digital economy, although one hidden and rarely spoken of.

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