CREATIVE WORK UNDER COGNITIVE CAPITALISM CONDITIONS

Medicine under capitalism.

For about ten years, I have carried out annual appraisals on doctors working in general practice. I do this on a freelance basis, not as part of my salaried work. When I started, I used to claim my fees from a man called Steve, in an office at the local primary care trust. Now Steve is no longer there. Nor is his job, nor his office, nor the trust. Nowadays, I send my invoices to an agency a co...

Medicine Under Capitalism

tion. His first-rate and first-hand working knowledge of geology and paleontology as well as his clear perception of the weak arguments in Darwin's theory raise this book far above the level of similar endeavors of the period. Dawson attempts to salvage his faith by careful analysis ofthese arguments. He demonstrates, for example, that the fossil record does not provide support only for the Dar...

Resident work conditions under the microscope.

Adrenosympathetic overactivity under conditions of work stress.

Serial measurements of urinary adrenaline, noradrenaline, and 11-hydroxycorticosteroid excretion were performed on 32 healthy men under two conditions of work stress; piecework and work on assembly line. A statistically significant increase in adrenaline, noradrenaline, and 11-hydroxycorticosteroids was observed for piecework and assembly line workers compared with salaried and 'ordinary' worke...

Knowledge, Work and Subject in Informational Capitalism

With the development of informational capitalism and the network society, globalization and informatization play an increasingly crucial role for understanding technology and society. Informatization describes a qualitative leap in technology development which opens up new dimensions of productivity by information modelling on the one hand, but which demands new forms of knowledge of informatio...