The reproduction of difference: gender and the global division of labour

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[1] Cohen, N. (2008) ‘The valorization of surveillance: towards a political economy of Facebook’, Democratic Communiqué , 22 (1):5–21.

[2] Comor, E. (2010). ‘Contextualizing and Critiquing the Fantastic Prosumer: Power, Alienation and Hegemony’, Critical Sociology , 36 (6), pp. 1–19.

[3] Drobnič, S. & A. Guillén (2011), Work-life balance in Europe: the role of job quality , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

[4] Engels, F. (1877) On Marx's Capital , Moscow: Progress Publishers (English edition, 1956):89.

[5] Froebel, F., J. Heinrichs & O. Krey (1980) The New International Division of Labour . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

[6] Fuchs, C. (2010) ‘Labor in informational capitalism and on the Internet’, The Information Society 26 (3):179–196.

[7] Hilgers, D. & C. Ihl. (2010) ‘Citizensourcing: applying the concept of open innovation to the public sector’, International Journal of Public Participation , 4 (1):67–88.

[8] Hochschild, A. R (1983) The Managed Heart: The Commercialization of Human Feeling , Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

[9] Howe, J. (2006) ‘The rise of crowdsourcing’, Wired , June.

[10] Huws, U. (2003) The Making of a Cybertariat: virtual work in a real world , New York: Monthly Review Press.

[11] Huws, U. (2006) ‘What will we do? The destruction of occupational identities in the Knowledge-based Economy’, Monthly Review , 57 (8), January.

[12] Huws, U. (2006b) ‘Fixed, Footloose or fractured: work, identity and the spatial division of labour’ Monthly Review , 57 (10) March.

[13] Marx, K. (1845) ‘Division of Labour and Forms of Property – Tribal, Ancient, Feudal’ in Part 1, A, German Ideology . Accessed, February 1, 2012 from: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm#5a3.

[14] Oliver, D., C. Romm-Livermore & F. Sudweeks (2009) Self-Service in the Internet Age , Springer.

[15] Pfau-Effinger, B. & T, Rostgaard (2011) Care between work and welfare in European societies , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

[16] Prahalad, C.K. & V. Ramaswamy (2000) ‘Co-Opting Customer Competence’, Harvard Business Review , January/February.

[17] Scholz, T. (2011) Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory . New York: Autonomedia.

[18] Toffler, A. (1980) The Third Wave , Bantam Books.

[19] Thompson, E. P. (1963) The Making of the English Working Class , London: Victor Gollancz.

[20] Weinbaum, B. & A. Bridges (1973) ‘The Other Side of the Paycheck’ Monthly Review , 28 (3):88–103.

[21] Wilkinson, F. (1982) The Dynamics of Labour Market Segmentation , London:Academic Press.