Resisting Work: The Corporatization of Life and Its Discontents

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; A job is no longer something we 'do, ' but instead something we 'are.' As the boundaries between work and non-work have dissolved, we restructure ourselves and our lives using social ingenuity to get things done and be resourceful outside the official workday. In this provocative book, Peter Fleming insists that many jobs in the West are now regulated by a new matrix of power-biopower-where 'life itself' is put to work through our ability to self-organize around formal rulesBiographical Note: Peter Fleming is Professor of Business and Society at Cass Business School, City University, London. He is the co-author of several books, including "Contesting the Corporation: Struggle, Power and Resistance in Organizations "(with Andre Spicer), "Dead Man Working "(with Carl Cederstrom), and "The End of Corporate Social Responsibility: Crisis and Critique" (with Marc T. Jones). Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Work? -- 1. Come as You Are: The New Corporate Enclosure Movement -- 2. Common Matters -- 3. Why the Corporation Does Not Work: A Brief History -- 4. Corporate Culture and the Coming Bioproletariat -- 5. Free Work Capitalism -- 6. How to Resist Work Today -- Conclusion: Working after Neoliberalism -- Notes -- References -- Index. Contributor Bio:  Fleming, Peter Peter Fleming, MA HRM, has more than 30 years of experience as an international management consultant and principal of PFA International. He is a chartered marketer and chartered fellow of the Institute of Personnel Development. He has trained thousands of negotiators from all over the world.