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Does digital transformation make worker power impossible? Many seem to think so, especially those who see the Silicon Valley model as the best chance for economic growth in the twenty-first century. If economic growth requires deregulating markets for labor and finance capital, then labor's traditional power resources - especially institutions for social protection and the unions that support and enforce them - need to be dismantled. Rising inequality and spreading precarity are therefore inevitable and unavoidable in a world where workers cannot defend against employer discretion.
In Recoding Power, Rothstein argues that worker power is possible in digital transformation, and outlines three tactics that workers can use in order to defend against precarity. Tracing how workers respond to mass layoffs at four tech firms in the United States and Germany, Rothstein shows that workers can build power in twenty-first century capitalism when they put workplace discourse at the center of their tactics for collective action. Close analysis of struggles in the workplace uncovers the creative tactics workers can develop to "recode" management's discourse in order to recognize the possibility of power and mobilize to transform that possibility into reality.
By centering workers' lived experiences in the workplace, Recoding Power develops an account of actually existing digital transformation, illustrating how the path of capitalist development is shaped not by economic necessity, but by political creativity.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Actually Existing Digital Transformation
Chapter 2. Worker Power in Twenty-First-Century Capitalism
PART I. MASS LAYOFFS IN THE UNITED STATES
Worker Power and the Discourse of Market Fundamentalism
Chapter 3. Economic Transition in the Workplace: Resistance at IBM Burlington
Chapter 4. Market Power is not Enough: Acquiescence at IBM San Jose
PART II. MASS LAYOFFS IN GERMANY
Digital Transformation in a Robust Institutional Environment
Chapter 5. Institutions by the Wayside: Acquiescence at Infineon
Chapter 6. Counterhegemonic Tactics: Resistance at Siemens
Chapter 7. The Power of Recoding
Appendix I. List of Interviews
Appendix II. A Note on Methods: Workplace Discourse
References
Index
