LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mel van elteren

4 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mel van elteren

  • Deconstructing Digital Capitalism and the Smart Society
    Mel van Elteren
    Today’s critics of big online platforms tend to consider privacy breaches, monopolistic practices, and the deployment of surveillance technologies as the main problems. Internet reformers suggest the answers to these issues reside in more--and better--regulations. While the questions of privacy, data, and size are indeed important, they are secondary however to a deeper set ...
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  • Managerial Control of American Workers
    Mel van Elteren
    Today, surveillance and regulation of employees are pervasive at all levels (except the highest) in a wide variety of American workplaces. Digital information systems have become important tools of managerial control. The constraints built into these systems by so-called 'business process reengineering' are a continuation of scientific management principles developed during ...
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  • Labor and the American Left
    Mel van Elteren
    According to public opinion data over the past decade, most Americans hold center-left attitudes regarding key economic and social policy issues. Recent polls even show significant support of 'socialism' among American adults, especially self-identified Democrats and the 'millennial generation.' At the same time, the focus of the mass media has been on a widespread right-win...
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  • Americanism and Americanization
    Mel van Elteren
    With the current state of foreign affairs, the terms 'Americanism' and 'Americanization' sometimes take on an unexpected--and an unflattering--connotation. Americanism essentially involves values, beliefs, ideals, goods and practices in local settings outside the United States that are in some way related or attributed to American influence. While the validity of this influe...
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    58,67 €