Since the journal’s founding, Fast Capitalism has been at the forefront researching labor. As capitalism changes, the relationship between capital and labor evolves. We must continue to explore these dynamics into the future. This Labor Day read up on some of our articles exploring work in contemporary capitalism.
Speed: Through, Across, and In—The Landscapes of Capital Virtual Economics and Twenty-First Century Leisure Bicycle Messengers and Fast Capitalism: An Old School Solution to the Needs of Techno-Capitalism Landscapes of the Social Relations of Production in a Networked Society The Political Economy of Knowledge: Neglecting Political Economy in the Age of Fast Capitalism (As Before) Revolutionary Industry and Digital Colonialism By What Means, By Whose Means? Knowledge and Cultural Production in the Context of Contemporary Capitalism: A Response to Wittkower “Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud”: Organizing Since Katrina Massive Multi-player Online Games and the Developing Political Economy of Cyberspace The McDonaldization of Higher Education?: Notes on the UK Experience The Disintegration of Fordism and the Transformation of Black Anti-Semitism in America, 1945-2005 The Workers May Yet Unite: Media Misdirection Versus The Political and Cultural Economy of the US Auto Industry and Worker Attitudes Rejecting Academic Labor as a Subaltern Class: Learning from Paulo Freire and the Politics of Critical Pedagogy Labour-time in the Dot.Com bubble: Marxist approaches The Construction and Demonization of the Lazybones Inflicting the Structural Violence of the Market: Workfare and Underemployment to Discipline the Reserve Army of Labor Endangered Humanities at a Time of Crisis in the EU and Beyond: Shrinking, Downsize and The Itinerant Academic Informal Labor in the Sharing Economy: Everyone Can Be a Record Producer Twenty-Five Years and Still Recovering: A Brief Reflection on NAFTA’s Impact on Southside, Virginia