Abstract
This chapter discusses the impact of network connectivity on labor systems, arguing that the response to the recession of the 1970s was a profound one and eventually led to the crash of 2008. It explains how the early to mid-1970s brought forward information and communications technology (ICT) as the heart of capitalist development and situates this shift into networks within trends in production, finance, and U.S. military activity. It also examines what Kim Moody calls the “great transformation,” when a basement-to-attic redesign touched everything from the content of specific jobs to the technical division of labor within companies and entire industries, to the location of discrete and now increasingly isolable production systems. This “Great Transformation” is analyzed from two vantage points. The first concerns the labor process, the second, the wider commodity chains within which labor has been mobilized.
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