‘Suits’ and ‘creatives’: managerial control, the expropriation of fun and the manufacture of consent
Human skill poses a perennial problem to capitalist enterprises. This paper suggests that they have discovered, in the concept of ‘creativity’, a new weapon in the war on skill which simultaneously generates consent, sanctifies the use of inexperienced and expendable labour, and gives the manager ev...
Main Author: | Bob Hughes |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2007-01-01
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Series: | Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation |
Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/workorgalaboglob.1.1.0077 |
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