Class warfare in the information age

by Perelman, Michael

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Title Statements

Full title :Class warfare in the information age / Michael Perelman.

Summary

In Class Warfare in the Information Age, Michael Perelman shows how class conflict remains a contemporary issue. He challenges the notion that, with the help of modern computer and telecommunication technologies, we can look forward to life in a well-educated society in which anybody with even a modicum of intelligence and discipline can enjoy a more than comfortable existence. Perelman reveals how the efforts of business, to profit from the sale of information, will result in the reduction of rather than an increase in access to information. He demonstrates how the treatment of information as a commodity will cause it to be more regulated and less accessible. In the future, Perelman argues, it will still become a class-based privilege to access and afford information, and the rights of individuals will disintegrate as the power of the corporate sector grows.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1999, ©1998.
Edition:1st St. Martin's pbk ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):St. Martin's Press
Place of Publication:New York, N.Y
Language:eng
Publication Date:1999, ©1998.

The Physical Object

Description:154 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:031222477X, 9780312224776
oclc:ocm43363862
LC Classification:HM221
Dewey Decimal:303.6

1. A Skeptical Reading of the Information Revolution -- 2. Classes and the Information Revolution -- 3. Information and Control of the Labor Process -- 4. The Contradiction of Exploited Informational Labor -- 5. Panopticism -- 6. Information as a Commodity and Other Economic Metaphors -- 7. Markets and Informational Efficiency -- 8. Conclusion: Toward a Real Information Age.

Subjects

Classes sociales Information society Information technology -- Social aspects Social Class Social classes Social conflict Société informatisée Technologie de l'information -- Aspect …