Proletarianization of Professional Employees and Underemployment of General Intellect in a "Knowledge Economy": Canada, 1982–2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-166
Author(s):  
D. W. Livingstone
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Professional Employees ◽  
General Intellect

scholarly journals Marx against Marx: A Critical Reading of the "Fragment on Machines"

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-339
Author(s):  
Martin Spence
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Fixed Capital ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Main Current ◽  
Theoretical Innovation ◽  
Critical Interpretation ◽  
General Intellect ◽  
The Way

Marx’s Fragment on Machines is sometimes held up as a creative departure from orthodoxy, and a prescient harbinger of a knowledge economy. In particular the concept of general intellect, which appears uniquely in the Fragment, is celebrated as a key theoretical innovation. This article presents a close reading and critical interpretation of the text of the Fragment to argue, firstly, that its primary theme is not general intellect, but fixed capital; secondly, that its emphasis on fixed capital is unduly narrow and productivist, leading to an equally narrow treatment of labour and value; and finally, it seeks to explain why Marx produced this odd work, so much out of step with the main current of his thought, at the time and in the way that he did.

Gendering the Knowledge Economy

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Walby ◽  
Heidi Gottfried ◽  
Karin Gottschall ◽  
Mari Osawa
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy

Book review

2002 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-514
Author(s):  
András Simonovits ◽  
Ádám Török ◽  
Beatrix Lányi
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
International Competitiveness ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
Academic Press ◽  
Eu Membership ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Edward Elgar

T. Boeri - A. Börsch-Supan - A. Brugviani - R. A. Kapteyn - F. Peracchi (eds): Pensions: More Information, Less Ideology(Boston/Dordrecht/London: Kluwer Academic Press, 2001, 196 pp.) B. Å. Lundvall - G. Esping-Andersen - L. Soete - M. Castells - M. Telò - M. Tomlinson - R. Boyer - R. M. Lindley (ed.: M. J. Rodrigues): The New Knowledge Economy in Europe. A Strategy for International Competitiveness and Cohesion (Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2002, 337 pp.) G. Gorzelak - É. Ehrlich - L. Faltan - M. Illner: Central Europe in Transition: Toward EU Membership (Warsaw: Regional Studies Association, 2001, 371 pp.)

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