Blood, sweat and IPhones a review of `Cyber-proleteriat : global labour in the digital vortex` by Nick Dyer-Witheford
It is now evident that information and communication technologies (ICTs) are central to global capitalism.
Dr Wayne Hope
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Wealth, inheritance and inter-generational conflict
The ‘one percenters’ must be enjoying the spectacle of young adults fighting baby boomers for the privileges of a diminishing middle class lifestyle. Unfortunately, the inter-generational conflict frame pervades many conventional analyses of social inequality.
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MUST READ – Flagging the TPPA
In the middle of the anti-TPPA march down Queen street was a stooped pakeha woman carrying the New Zealand flag. A few paces in front, groups of Maori marched under the Tino rangitiratanga ensign. These domestically opposed symbols of national identity were,for the moment, standing together against a common threat – the transnational corporation.
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The Cost of Living: A review of Thomas Owen’s ‘Patents, Pills and the Press’
Hidden within the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement is a longstanding conflict between pharmaceutical corporations and health activists over the availability of generic medicines.