Jarrett, Kylie
Digital Labor
- ISBN 13:
- 9781509545209
- author:
- Jarrett, Kylie
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Polity Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions:
- 21 x 14.9 x 2 centimetres (0.34
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Media Studies,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Digital Labor explores the common features and experiences of workers in new modes of employment, including tech entrepreneurs and delivery platform workers. By examining unpaid user activity, platform-mediated gig work, and formal employment within digital media industries, Kylie Jarrett sheds light on the structures of exploitation, organisation of labor, dynamics of alienation, and commodification of workers' lives. Through a critical Marxian lens, this book interrogates the struggles of digital laborers to resist their working environments. It synthesises an extensive range of studies and sources to offer a comprehensive overview of work in the high-tech economy. Suitable for students and scholars of media and communication, sociology, labor studies, and anyone interested in emerging forms of work. Digital Labor provides a rich critical appraisal of work in digital capitalism, identifying what is specific about this form of labor and offering insight into its nature.
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