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England im 19. Jahrhundert. Eine Reihe von Angriffen auf Textilfabriken sorgt für Unruhe bei den Eigentümern. Zuvor sind in Folge der Einführung neuartiger Maschinen die Löhne radikal gesenkt, Arbeitsplätze gestrichen und die Freiheiten der Belegschaft verringert worden. Die Arbeiter reagieren radikal auf die Situation und zerstören in Hunderten von organisierten Attacken und Sabotageakten die neue Technik. Der Mythos ihrer fiktiven Anführerfi...

This book situates media piracy as a symptom of a much larger restructuring of cultural labor in the era of the internet: labor that is digital, entrepreneurial, informal and even illegal, and increasingly politicized.

In the nineteenth century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years the Luddites roamed the English countryside, practicing drills and manoeuvres that they would later deploy on unsuspecting machines. The movement has been derided by scholars as a backwards-looking and ultimately ineffectual effort to stem the march of history, for Gavin Mueller, the move...

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - George Mason University, 2016) issued under title: The pirate mode of production: intellectual property and labor within neoliberal restructuring.

Consider for a few moments the staggering magnitude of technological advance which has occurred since the birth four centuries ago of that early progenitor of the scientific method, Galileo. Think also about the extent of scientific knowledge avail­ able during the lifetime of Galileo and his associates, knowledge increasing slowly through several centuries, accelerating rapidly during the past twenty years, culminat­ ing at the present time i...

A real need exists for ways to bridge the gap between basic research and prac­ tical application, for faster utilization of new discoveries and new developments in the world of technology, and for technical transfer of defense and space accomplish­ ments to the civilian economy. The problem is compounded by the torrential flow of technical information. Thirty million books are available on technical subjects, the total increasing at the rate o...