Changemakers: The Industrious Future of the Digital Economy

This book argues that, as industrial capitalism enters a period of prolonged crisis, a new paradigm of ‘industrious modernity’ is emerging. Based on small-scale, commons-based and market-oriented entrepreneurship, this industrious modernity is being pioneered by the many outcasts that no longer find a place within a crumbling industrial modernity.

This new industriousness draws on the new planetary commons that have been generated by the globalization of industrial capitalism itself. The o...