13 research outputs found
ctrl+alt+del
A review of Enda Brophy's study of call centre work in global capitalism. Language put to work. Published in 2018
For whose benefit? Fear and loathing in the welfare state
This article contributes to the debate on the relationship between marketing and propaganda through an analysis of social marketing as a mode of governing in permanent campaigning. The working hypothesis is that social marketing operations are agitational rather than propagandistic. The conceptual approach stems from a comparison of propaganda and marketing with Fordist and post-Fordist modes of production and governance. The research into the role of agitation involves an empirical study of the UK government campaign against benefit fraud, the most expensive of its kind. Using a combination of methodologies, the political context is framed through a discourse analysis that charts the historical
emergence of the problem of benefit fraud and the material effects of this discourse on welfare spending allocation, content analysis is used to identify correspondences between different newspapersâ rhetoric and policy under different governments, and semiotic analysis helps to decode the message of the campaign against benefit fraud, as it relates to the overall governmentâs strategy on this issue. The study offers insights into the political strategy of the government of New Labour between 1997 and 2010 and its resort to agitational techniques, exposing the limitations of government marketing and public relations in the context of an overall crisis of its political legitimacy, in both economic and political terms
Mapping Precariousness
The condition of precariousness not only provides insights into a segment of the
world of work or of a particular subject group, but is also a privileged standpoint
for an overview of the condition of the social on a global scale. Because
precariousness is multidimensional and polysemantic, it traverses contemporary
society and multiple contexts, from industrial to class, gender, family relations as
well as political participation, citizenship and migration.
This book maps the differences and similarities in the ways precariousness
and insecurity in employment unfold and are subjectively experienced in regions
and sectors that are confronted with different labour histories, legislations and
economic priorities. Establishing a constructive dialogue amongst different global
regions and across disciplines, the chapters explore the shift from precariousness
to precariat and collective subjects as it is being articulated in the current global
crisis. This edited collection aims to continue a process of mapping experiences
by means of ethnographies, fieldwork, interviews, content analysis, where the
precarious define their condition and explain how they try to withdraw from, cope
with or embrace it
Tous Ensemble
This is a review of the latest in the Empire/Multitude series by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri: Assembly. Published in 2018
Letâs change: a critical study of the aims and practices of a local exchange trading scheme
The paper presents the findings of ethnographic research and a survey of a Local Exchange Trading Scheme in North-East London and asks the question of whether the scheme delivers on the aims and objectives of its members. The research found that whilst its members express a strong politically motivated desire for an alternative to the prevailing economic system, the LETS scheme falls short of delivering on those ambitions. The findings raise the question of whether there is anything intrinsic to this form of local community currency that leads it to be more inclusive, egalitarian and fair
Book Review: âCtrl-Alt-Delâ, A Review of Language Put to Work by Enda Brophy
Arianna Bove reviews Enda Brophyâs Language Put to Work: The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce (2018). Palgrave Macmillan
Erik Satie Gymnopédie n. 1
Prove di analisi (a cura di Susanna Pasticci