"Following on her brilliant The Making of a Cybertariat, a modern classic in the analysis of class and gender, work and consumption, Huws turns her sharp eye to the present crisis into which the cybertariat 'has come of age.' Rich in theoretical and methodological insights, Labor in the Global...

Cover -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What Has Happened to the Twentieth-century Welfare State? -- 3. What Has Happened in the Labour Market? -- 4. What Has Happened to Gender Equality? -- 5. Recalibrating the Mechanisms of Redistribution --...

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. WHAT WILL WE DO? The Destruction of Occupational Identities in the Knowledge-Based Economy -- 2. FIXED, FOOTLOOSE, OR FRACTURED: Work, Identity, and the Spatial Division of Labor in the Twenty-First-Century City -- 3. BEGGING AND BRAGGING: The Self and the...