“In a weird way, the everyday lives of these workers undermine the values under which they supposedly toil. They are touted as the most renegade—the most entrepreneurial—generation in years. Yet they are, in traditional labour terms, amazingly subservient: the ideal post-industrial employees. Chained to their keyboards, working far longer hours than they are paid for and blurring the boundaries between their jobs and their lives, digital employees paradoxically present the kind of compliant workforce that would have pleased Henry Ford, Nelson Rockefeller and probably Chairman Mao.