Cutting Edge: Technology, Information, Capitalism and Social Revolution

Marc Notes: Announced in cloth at $60.00 -tech supervision, counseling forBiographical Note: Thomas Hirschl is Director of the Population and Development Program at Cornell University. Guglielmo Carchedi is Senior Researcher in the Department of Economics and Econometrics at the University of Amsterdam. His previous books include "Frontiers of Political Economy" and "Marx and Non-Equilibrium Economics."Publisher Marketing: Bringing together contributions from workers employed in the new electronics and information industries with work from theorists and economics, politics and science, this title provides an up-to-date analysis of the complex relations between technology and work. Individual essays look at topics including the cyclical nature of a technologically-driven economy, the privatization of knowledge which new information industries demand, and the strategies which trade unionists and governments might deploy to potect jobs and living standards.

Contributor Bio:  Davis, Jim "Garfield" debuted on June 19, 1978, in just 41 U. S. newspapers. Today it is the most widely syndicated comic strip in the world, with million of readers. Garfield, the lasagna-loving fat cat, lives in Muncie, Indiana, where he is kept well fed by his creator, cartoonist Jim Davis. Contributor Bio:  Hirschl, Thomas A Hirschl, professor of sociology, Cornell University.