Changemakers by Adam Arvidsson - 9781509538898

ChangemakersThe Industrious Future of the Digital Economy\nAuthor(s): Adam Arvidsson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509538898, 978-1509538898\nSynopsis\nThis book argues that, as industrial capitalism enters a period of prolonged crisis, a new paradigm of industrious modernity is emerging. Based on small-scale, commons-based and market-oriented entrepreneurship, this industrious modernity is being pioneered by the many outcasts that no longer find a place within a crumbling industrial modernity. This new industriousness draws on the new planetary commons that have been generated by the globalization of industrial capitalism itself. The outsourcing of material production to global supply chains has made the skills necessary to engage in commodity production generic and common, and the globalization of media culture and the internet have generated new knowledge commons. Together these new commons have radicall.