{"product_id":"popular-sovereignty-in-a-digital-age-lessons-for-the-global-south-and-working-classes-paperback","title":"Popular Sovereignty in a Digital Age: Lessons for the Global South and Working Classes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAaron Schneider\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMarco Cepik\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Goldfrank\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the evolution of global capitalism and geopolitics, digitalization presents a new and yet unresolved chapter. In the lead up to digitalization, neoliberalism weakened the welfare states of the Global North and the developmental states of the Global South where they existed. Neoliberalism also disorganized working classes, as Left parties and labor organization declined across the globe. Into this deregulated and unchecked context, digitalization proceeded, and technology companies inserted themselves into multiple sectors, making use of first mover advantage and monopolistic practices to drive out smaller and less advanced firms. We can now characterize a landscape in which states have been weakened, working classes disorganized, and rival firms greatly handicapped, allowing big tech to operate as all-powerful quasi-monopolies. They enjoy unprecedented concentration of wealth, power, and advantage. Worryingly, deregulated technology now penetrates many areas of life with surveillance and control, setting us on a path towards anti-democratic, neo-imperial, and exclusionary futures. Aaron Schneider offers a popular and sovereign alternative, with particular focus on labor and the Global South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAaron Schneider \u003c\/b\u003eis Leo Block Chair, Professor of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eChina, Latin America, and the Global Economy: Economic, Historical, and National Issues\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRenew Orleans? Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Hurricane Katrina\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e State-Building and Tax Regimes in Central America\u003c\/i\u003e, among other books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 342\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760063414560,"sku":"9781438498843","price":63.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5140b56b6e69e40b7cc380a2a89997e9_4a916ef7-0547-48d6-80a7-34934d866055.webp?v=1780170480","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/popular-sovereignty-in-a-digital-age-lessons-for-the-global-south-and-working-classes-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}