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THE NEW BARBARIAN MANIFESTO PAPERBACK EDN Ian O. Angell

THE NEW BARBARIAN MANIFESTO PAPERBACK EDN By Ian O. Angell

THE NEW BARBARIAN MANIFESTO PAPERBACK EDN by Ian O. Angell


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Summary

Ian Angell here asserts that information technology, once welcomed as a liberator in the workplace, has in fact begun to breed a new business society of barbarians in which winner takes all, eventually leading to world poverty for the many and self-governing opulence for the elite few.

THE NEW BARBARIAN MANIFESTO PAPERBACK EDN Summary

THE NEW BARBARIAN MANIFESTO PAPERBACK EDN by Ian O. Angell

Ian Angell here asserts that information technology, once welcomed as a liberator in the workplace, has in fact begun to breed a new business society of barbarians in which winner takes all. He claims the world will soon be controlled by a few gifted control corporations that move factories around the world in search of the lowest wages, leading to poverty for the many and self-governing opulence for the elite few.

About Ian O. Angell

Ian Angell is Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics. A controversial figure, he already attracts a great deal of media attention for his radical views.

Table of Contents

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; information superhighways in cyberspace; the new barbarians; globalization and localization; where do we work? do we work?; knowledge workers versus service workers; who do we work for? and what ia work anyway?; limits to taxation; the end of liberal democracy?; an age of rage; corrupting the old order; attitudes towards crime; new rituals for old; altruism - who cares?; the making of a new barbarian; mutation of the nation-state; the flight of the information rich; winning through - a strategy for survival/success.

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GOR002589871
9780749435059
0749435054
THE NEW BARBARIAN MANIFESTO PAPERBACK EDN by Ian O. Angell
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Kogan Page Ltd
20010601
288
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