The Uberfication of the University (Forerunners: Ideas First)
Gary Hall
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Paperback. Num Pages: 74 pages. BIC Classification: JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 177 x 5. Weight in Grams: 91.
Even after the 2008 financial crisis, neoliberalism has been able to advance its program of privatization and deregulation. The Uberfication of the University analyzes the emergence of the sharing economy—an economy that has little to do with sharing access to good and services and everything to do with selling this access—and the companies behind it: LinkedIn, Uber, and Airbnb. In this society, we all are encouraged to become microentrepreneurs of the self, acting as if we are our own precarious freelance enterprises at a time when we are being steadily deprived of employment rights, public services, and welfare support. The ... Read more
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Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
74
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9781517902124
SKU
V9781517902124
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Ref
99-50
About Gary Hall
Gary Hall is professor of media and performing arts at Coventry University. He is the author of Digitize This Book! (Minnesota, 2008), Pirate Philosophy, and Culture in Bits. He is founding coeditor of the peer-reviewed online journal Culture Machine and cofounder of the Open Humanities Press.
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