Tom Slee
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We live in a culture of choice. But, in an age of corporate dominance, our freedom to choose has taken on new meaning. Upset with your local big box store? Object to unfair hiring practices at your neighbourhood fast food restaurant? Want to protest the opening of that new multinational coffeeshop? Vote with your feet! What if it's not that simple? In No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart, Tom Slee unpacks the implications of our fervent belief in the...
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On ne cesse d'entendre leurs noms. Uber, Airbnb, Lyft et tant d'autres jeunes pousses devenues grandes seraient en passe de redéfinir le capitalisme.
Pourtant, si l'on gratte le vernis d'innovation, cette vague de sociétés high-tech, pour la plupart américaines, est financée par des fonds de capital-risque sur un mode on ne peut plus traditionnel. Et derrière des promesses alléchantes dignes des mouvements sociaux les plus vertueux se dissimule...
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"The news is full of their names, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, and many more companies have a mandate of disruption and upending the "old order"--and they've succeeded in effecting the "biggest change in the American workforce in over a century," according to former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. But this new wave of technology companies is funded and steered by very old-school venture capitalists....