47 “As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living,” New York Times, November 17, 2012.
48 Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), 275.
49 See, for example, Manuel Castells, The Internet Galaxy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 374.
Chapter Seven
1 Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky, How Much Is Enough? The Love of Money, and the Case for the Good Life (London: Allen Lane, 2012), 16.
2 Ben Agger, Speeding Up Fast Capitalism (Boulder CO: Paradigm, 2004), 157.
- More can be read about this on the Qualified Self movement website, at http://quantifiedself.com/.
4 Skidelsky and Skidelsky, How Much Is Enough?, 25.
5 Juliet Schor, Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth (New York: Penguin, 2010), 103. See also books by Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt, most recently, Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2013).
6 They also note that working hours vary significantly between countries, with the United States and the UK being outliers with regard to long hours and income inequality, compared to, say, Sweden and the Netherlands.
7 See, for example, the writings of André Gorz.
8 Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness (London: Allen & Unwin, 1935); Paul Lafargue, The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company, 1883).
9 Kathi Weeks, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), 172.
10 Jeremy Rifkin, Time Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1987), 197.
11 Jonathan Gershuny, After Industrial Society? The Emerging Self-service Economy (London: Macmillan, 1978).
12 Hilary Stout, “For Shoppers, Next Level of Instant Gratification,” New York Times October 8, 2013. Intriguingly, the man who is bringing us instantaneity has donated \$42 million to the construction of the Clock of the Long Now, which is supposed to tick for ten thousand years (see Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jef Bezos and the Age of Amazon [London: Bantam, 2013]).
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