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Erika (Hrsg.) Cudworth

Technology, Society and Inequality

New Horizons and Contested Futures

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Over the last 250 years, the global capitalist system has been responsible for rapid economic growth and technological change. The consequent increase in production of an ever-changing and expanding range of products and services has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and deprivation. This book suggests, however, that the primary purpose of current production and distribution is not to satisfy human needs but to create profit for the owners of capital that in turn has devastating consequences for the environment and for vulnerable people. Multidisciplinary in perspective, contributors to this volume addresses issues of inequ… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Senker, Peter (Hrsg.) / Walker, Kathy (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-4331-1971-2
  • EAN: 9781433119712
  • Produktnummer: 17523158
  • Verlag: Peter Lang
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 228 S.
  • Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.6 cm 475 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 475

Über den Autor


Erika Cudworth is Reader in Politics and Sociology at the University of East London. She is author of several books including Environment and Society (2003) and Developing Ecofeminist Theory (2005) and co-author of others including Posthuman International Relations: Complexity, Ecologism and International Politics (2011). Peter Senker was a Visiting Professor at the University of East London between 1995 and 2011, and a Senior Fellow at SPRU, University of Sussex between 1972 and 1995. He is co-editor of The Myths of Technology: Innovation and Inequality (Peter Lang, 2009) and Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Society (2000). Kathy Walker is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of East London, leader of the Communication Studies degree programme and Director of the Society, Technology and Inequality Research Group (STIR). She is co-editor of The Myths of Technology: Innovation and Inequality (Peter Lang, 2009).

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