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Popular Sovereignty in a Digital Age: Lessons for the Global South and Working Classes

Name: Popular Sovereignty in a Digital Age: Lessons for the Global South and Working Classes
Brand: State University of New York Press
SKU: 9781438498850
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Contributors:

Aaron Schneider (Editor)

Publisher:

State University of New York Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Political Science, Business & Economics

Book Subcategory:

Political Economy, Public Policy, Labor

Book Topic:

Economic Policy

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Release Date:

08/01/24

ISBN 13:

9781438498850

Weight:

1.47 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.88 inches

Pages:

342

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Looks at how digitalization has changed the way we produce and interact, and the implications for working classes and countries of the Global South.

In the evolution of global capitalism and geopolitics, digitalization presents a new and yet unresolved chapter. In the lead up to digitalization, neoliberalism weakened the welfare states of the Global North and the developmental states of the Global South where they existed. Neoliberalism also disorganized working classes, as Left parties and labor organization declined across the globe. Into this deregulated and unchecked context, digitalization proceeded, and technology companies inserted themselves into multiple sectors, making use of first mover advantage and monopolistic practices to drive out smaller and less advanced firms. We can now characterize a landscape in which states have been weakened, working classes disorganized, and rival firms greatly handicapped, allowing big tech to operate as all-powerful quasi-monopolies. They enjoy unprecedented concentration of wealth, power, and advantage. Worryingly, deregulated technology now penetrates many areas of life with surveillance and control, setting us on a path towards anti-democratic, neo-imperial, and exclusionary futures. Aaron Schneider offers a popular and sovereign alternative, with particular focus on labor and the Global South.

About the Author

Aaron Schneider is Leo Block Chair, Professor of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of China, Latin America, and the Global Economy: Economic, Historical, and National Issues; Renew Orleans? Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Hurricane Katrina; and State-Building and Tax Regimes in Central America, among other books.

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