One of the earliest books to explore this phenomenon is Steve Barley and Gideon Kunda's "Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy." If you're interested in the topic, you may want to check it out:
http://www.amazon.com/Gurus-Hired-Guns-Warm-Bodies/dp/0691127956 On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:30 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Since I responded to Professor Roclin's blog post earlier, I came across > this article when I was doing my morning news ritual: > > Does Silicon Valley Have a Contract-Worker Problem? > http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/09/silicon-valleys-contract-worker-problem.html > > It is even worse than I imagined. Until now -- I guess I am somewhat late to > the game -- I had never heard of the "1099 economy." > > Pretty fu*king scary. What are we doing to ourselves? > > In addition, the other day, I came across a write up on Naomi Klein's new > book, "This Changes Everything." > > Naomi Klein on the Great Clash Between Capitalism and the Climate > http://www.alternet.org/books/naomi-klein-great-clash-between-capitalism-and-climate > > Can't wait to get my hands on it and I trust it will be as revealing as "The > Shock Doctrine" was. > > Maybe at some point, we will get some influencers, besides the folks on this > list, who are in positions of power that will start advocating for new p2p > business models that are less exploitive. > > But first we have to take on Wall Street. And I quote: > > "She sees her new book as the natural successor to The Shock Doctrine as > she deepens her critique and insists we need to fundamentally rethink our > approach to climate. The inconvenient truth about global warming is that it > isn't really about carbon, but rather capitalism. Our economic model is > waging war on the earth, and unless capitalism is dramatically changed, we > are doomed." > > Hear, hear. > > /j > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected]. > -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
