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Digital Labour and Karl Marx

Digital Labour and Karl Marx

Hardcover

General SociologyPoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0415716152
ISBN13: 9780415716154
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 11 2013
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and social media such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour and Karl Marx, Christian Fuchs attempts to answer that question, crafting a systematic critical theorisation of labour as performed in the capitalist ICT industry. Relying on a range of global case studies--from unpaid social media prosumers or Chinese hardware assemblers at Foxconn to miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo--Fuchs sheds light on the labour costs of digital media, examining the way ICT corporations exploit human labour and the impact of this exploitation on the lives, bodies, and minds of workers.

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