Autonomous Media: Activating Resistance and Dissent

Autonomous Media: Activating Resistance and Dissent

“Autonomous Media is a bold and terrific contribution to media activists’ thinking and practice. Langlois and Dubois have captured a number of the most intense communication developments and debates within the current global social justice/altermondialiste move-ments. Like the most promising projects at the present time, they constantly combine local and global issues: low power radio, open publishing, blogging, culture-jamming and more. They provide solid fuel for the fire that continues

Activating the Unemployed: A Comparative Appraisal of Work-Oriented Policies (International Social Security Series, V. 3)

Activating the Unemployed: A Comparative Appraisal of Work-Oriented Policies (International Social Security Series, V. 3)

The last decade has witnessed a conspicuous alteration in policies protecting unemployed people in modern welfare states. Social policies are increasingly designed to encourage economic independence. Policy makers have introduced a wide range of reforms linking disability, unemployment, and welfare programs cash benefits to work-oriented measures. Welfare policies are being framed by a new emphasis on recipients’ obligations, emphasiing that the receipt of benefits creates a responsibility to ta