The spark in the engine: creative workers in a global economy

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Author(s): Ursula Huws

Publication date (Print): Winter 2006-2007

Journal: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

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Introducing this volume, this paper summarises the contents and offers an analysis of the place of creative work in a global economy, focusing in particular on the restructuring of global value chains and the commodification of knowledge in a process which simultaneously opens up the possibility for new creative tasks for some workers whilst deskilling others. It concludes with a discussion of the contradictions that this presents for creative workers who may be offered a choice between disappointing their own creative aspirations or collaborating in their own exploitation.

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Journal ID (doi): 10.13169

Journal ID (publisher-id): workorgalaboglob

Title: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Print): 1745641X

ISSN (Electronic): 17456428

Publication date (Print): Winter 2006-2007

Volume: 1

Issue: 1

Pages: 1-12

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DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.1.1.0001

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[1] Altvater, E. (2006) ‘The social and natural environment of fossil capitalism’, Panitch, L. & C. Leys (eds.) Coming to Terms with Nature , Socialist Register, 2007, London: Merlin:37–59

[2] Barbrook, R. (2006) The Class of the New , London: Openmute

[3] Bontis, N. Assessing knowledge assets: a review of the models used to measure intellectual capital. International Journal of Management Reviews , 2001, Volume 3 No 1, pp 41–60

[4] Bourdieu, P. (1983) ‘Forms of capital’ in J. C. Richards (ed.) Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education , New York: Greenwood Press.

[5] Braverman, H. (1974) Labor and Monopoly Capital: the degradation of work in the twentieth century , New York: Monthly Review Press

[6] Edvinsson, L. & Malone, M. (1997) Intellectual Capital: Realising Your Company's True Value by Finding its Hidden Brainpower , New York: HarperBusiness

[7] Feigenbaum, A. V. (1951) Quality Control: Principles, Practice, and Administration , New York; London: McGraw-Hill

[8] Flecker, J. & Kirschenhofer, S. (2002) Jobs on the Move: European case studies in relocating eWork , IES Report 386, Brighton: Institute for Employment Studies

[9] Froebel, F., J. Heinrichs & O. Krey (1977) The New International Division of Labour , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

[10] Hales, M. (1980) Living Thinkwork: Where Do Labour Processes Come From? , London: Free Association Books

[11] Hardt, M. & A. Negri (2000) Empire , Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

[12] Harvey, D. (2003) ‘The “new” imperialism: accumulation by dispossession’, Panitch, L. & C. Leys (eds.) The New Imperial Challenge , Socialist Register, 2003, London: Merlin:43–63

[13] Huws, U. (2003) The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World , New York: Monthly Review Press

[14] Kidron, M. (1967) ‘A Permanent Arms Economy’, International Socialism No.28, Spring

[15] Lisbon European Council (2000) Presidency Conclusions , 23–24 March, retrieved, November 1, 2006 from http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/ec/00100-r1.en0.htm

[16] Luxemburg, R. (1913; reprinted 2003)The Accumulation of Capital , London: Routledge (reprint)

[17] Marx, K. & F. Engels (1844) The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism: Against Bruno Bauer and Company . Retrieved on October 30, 2006 from http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/ch04.htm

[18] Meil, P. (2004) ‘Spanning the distance: challenges for competency, control and quality of work life’, ICT, the Knowledge Society and Changes in Work Workshop , The Hague, 9–10 June

[19] Morris, W. & E. Belfort Bax (1886) Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter 22: 'Socialism Militant’ [Part 1]. Retrieved November 2, 2006 from the William Morris Internet Archive, http://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1888/sru/ch22–1.htm

[20] Morris, W. (1990) News from Nowhere , Chapter 15: ‘On the Lack of Incentive to Labour in a Communist Society’. Retrieved, November 2, 2006 from the William Morris Internet Archive, http://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1890/nowhere/chapters/chapter15.htm

[21] Polanyi, M. (1967), The Tacit Dimension , Garden City, NY.: Doubleday

[22] Sveiby, K. E. (1997), The New Organizational Wealth: Managing and Measuring Knowledge-Based Assets , San Francisco, Ca.: Berret-Koehler

[23] Terkel, S. (1974) Working , Harmondsworth, UK; New York, USA: Penguin

[24] Tiwana, A. (2002), The Knowledge Management Toolkit: Orchestrating IT, Strategy, and Knowledge Platforms (2nd Edition), Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002

[25] Wiener, I.B. (ed) (1990) Journal of Personality Assessment : Vol. 54. Nos. 3 & 4