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Works Of Dr. P. P. Karan 1960-2016, Brad Allard Apr 2017

Works Of Dr. P. P. Karan 1960-2016, Brad Allard

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The Working Lives And Spatial Practice Of Digital Media Developers In San Francisco, Daniel G. Cockayne Jan 2016

The Working Lives And Spatial Practice Of Digital Media Developers In San Francisco, Daniel G. Cockayne

Theses and Dissertations--Geography

In this dissertation I examine work practices in the 21st Century, looking in particular at how categories such as labor and value are changing in the context of technological shifts and the valorization of entrepreneurial work. I take the example of digital media workers in San Francisco to show how work is changing in relation to correlative changes in the capitalist mode of production and the devaluation of labor under neoliberal models of reason. This approach interrogates how attachments toward work are produced and reproduced to ask why work has become such a naturalized and unquestionable category in everyday life. …