TY  - CHAP
AB  - Drawing on the idea of bio-power from wider social theory, this paper will demonstrate how life itself (bios) is now a crucial resource enlisted by capitalism. To explain this, the concept of biocracy is introduced to demonstrate how the informal subcultures, social intelligence and personal attributes of workers are currently being put to work. All that Fordism once feared is now the medium of a new form of exploitation. But as life itself is colonized in ever more expansive ways, resistance appears once again. A new political landscape has crystallized transforming the old tension between capital and labour into one between capital and life. Its manifesto is defined not by the demand for more, less or fairer work, but the end of work.
VL  - 35
SN  - 978-1-78052-783-3, 978-1-78052-782-6/0733-558X
DO  - 10.1108/S0733-558X(2012)0000035010
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2012)0000035010
AU  - Fleming Peter
ED  - Thomas Diefenbach
ED  - Rune Todnem By
PY  - 2012
Y1  - 2012/01/01
TI  - The Birth of Biocracy
T2  - Reinventing Hierarchy and Bureaucracy – from the Bureau to Network Organizations
T3  - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 205
EP  - 227
Y2  - 2024/09/19
ER  -