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Title: Class Warfare in the Information Age by Michael Perelman ISBN: 0-312-17758-5 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 15 March, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good try and some good points
Comment: I saw this in the school library as perhaps a left wing, no, marxist view of the sociology of cyberspace. It is a good attempt. Yes, it follows many of the current writers in sociology on cyberspace(like Castells) and the so called information revolution which I live everyday. It also looks at work and Taylorism well. I can't find any faults with it really. But does he do the title justice? I think, yes, he covers the sociology of work and the ideas of being replaced by a computer well. I also think he attempts to break out of the mold of much of the unoriginal writing being done on cyberpsace these days in the schools. He doesn't seem like a hipppy as one other reviewer noted. I don't get the idea that Perelman is a libertarian living on the West Coast nor do I think he is rich. He does seem to be an academic economist though. Good work Perelman!
Rating: 4
Summary: Well worth the read, in spite of its faults
Comment: We need intelligent critiques of Toffler-style rhetoric (as opposed to tirades by resentful hippies), and this is one. Lots of good ideas here. Problems: Perelman generalises so much he sometimes contradicts himself; the exclusively U.S. focus was frustrating to this foreigner (must be worse for non-Westerners); there might have been attention paid to the ways in which IT has been used as a means of resistance, to complete the picture. But it should be read. An excellent starting point for discussion.
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Title: Sociology of Education: Emerging Perspectives (Suny Series on Urban Public Policy) by Carlos Alberto Torres, Theodore R. Mitchell ISBN: 0791437566 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy by Michael D. Yates ISBN: 1583670793 Publisher: Monthly Review Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Pathology of the U.S. Economy Revisited : The Intractable Contradictions of Economic Policy by Michael Perelman ISBN: 0312293178 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 12 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Teachers and Texts: A Political Economy of Class and Gender Relations in Education by Michael W. Apple ISBN: 0415900743 Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul Pub. Date: August, 1988 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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