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Nonstop InertiaIvor Southwood

Nonstop Inertia

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In our culture of short-term work, mobile communications an rolling media it seems we are always on the move; but are w really getting anywhere? Non-Stop Inertia argues that this appearance of restless activity conceals and indeed maintains a deep paralysis of thought and action, and that rather than being unquestionable or inevitable, the environment of personal flexibility and perpetual crisis which we now inhabit is ideologically constructed. Written from inside this system of precarious employment and debt-driven subjectivity, illustrating its arguments with actual examples and using…

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2 editions
  • Other · English · 2011
    Hunt Publishing Limited, John · 9781846947834
  • Other · English · 2011
    Zero Books · 97 pages · 9781846945304
Self helpOccupational mobilityPsychological aspectsPrecarious employmentSocial aspectsQuality of work life