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Experimental Politics : Work, Welfare, and Creativity in the Neoliberal Age, ...

by Maurizio Lazzarato

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Experimental Politics : Work, Welfare, and Creativity in the Neoliberal Age, Hardcover by Lazzarato, Maurizio; Bove, Arianna (TRN); Gilbert, Jeremy (TRN); Goffey, Andrew (TRN); Hayward, Mark (TRN), ISBN 0262034867, ISBN-13 9780262034869, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US A celebrated theorist examines the conditions of work, employment, and unemployment in neoliberalism's flexible and precarious labor market. In Experimental Politics, Maurizio Lazzarato examines the conditions of work, employment, and unemployment in neoliberalism's flexible and precarious labor market. This is the first book of Lazzarato's in English that fully exemplifies the unique synthesis of sociology, activist research, and theoretical innovation that has generated his best-known concepts, such as “immaterial labor.” Th (published in France in 2009) is also groundbreaking in the way it brings Foucault, Deleuze, and Guattari to bear on the analysis of concrete political situations and real social struggles, while making a significant theoretical contribution in its own right. Lazzarato draws on the experiences of casual workers in the French entertainment industry during a dispute over the reorganization (“reform”) of their unemployment insurance in 2004 and 2005. He sees this conflict as the first testing ground of a political program of social reconstruction. The payment of unemployment insurance would become the principal instrument for control over the mobility and behavior of the workers. The

  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • Year: 2017
  • ISBN: 9780262034869
  • Condition: Fine

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