The ironic contradictions in the discourse on generation X, or how 'slackers' are saving capitalism  

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Heiman, Rachel J

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research vol. 08 no. 02 (May 2001), page 275-292.
Topik: youth; popular culture; Capitalism; class; United States

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: C43 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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In the early 1990s, youth in the US were deemed a generation of slackers'. Marketing and advertising agencies capitalized Upon this mix of concern and blame concerning Generation X. This article explores the ways that these. representations reflect changes within and anxieties about the future of the professional managerial class. I Suggest that these images have been also inadvertently shaping the subjectivities of the younger members of this generation. In so doing, they may be helping create the flexible worker that appears to he enabling the capitalist system to regulate itself during contemporary shifts to transnational capitalism.

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