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Unions in Digital Labour Studies: A Review of Information Society and Marxist Autonomist Approaches
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2018 A developing research agenda in digital labour studies draws on aspects of information society theory and Marxist autonomism to understand examples of unionisation in digital workplaces and among digital labourers. In this article, I trace core concepts
Tai Neilson
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Ambulating, digital and isolated: The case of Swedish labour inspectors [PDF]
, 2021 Carin Håkansta
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Digital labour: an empty signifier? [PDF]
Media, Culture & Society, 2020 Since the early 2000s, the expression ‘digital labour’ has identified an influential theoretical proposition in the Marxist critique of the political economy of digital media, which sees the leisure-driven, unpaid activities of social media users as unremunerated forms of work contributing to Internet companies’ profits.
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Digital labour markets: the hard questions [PDF]
, 2017 They have potentially positive and negative effects; it's important to debunk some of the hype and rhetoric, writes Cristiano Codagnone. In 1770 Wolfgang von Kempelen presented a sort of robot called the Turk (hidden inside there was, in reality, a ...
Codagnone, Cristiano
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Workplace Suicide and States of Denial: The France Telecom and Foxconn Cases Compared
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2017 Workplace suicides are sharply on the rise and reflect a generalised deterioration in working conditions across the globalised economy. Despite their growing prevalence, workplace suicides are subject to specific modes of repression that tend to keep ...
Sarah Waters
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Moving Beyond Microwork: Rebundling Digital Education and Reterritorialising Digital Labour [PDF]
, 2019 Digital labour is often reduced to microwork, granular tasks disassociated from a larger work project, and the labour market to serve these activities is distributed and largely unorganised as a collective body. Larger platform employers such as Amazon Mechanical Turk and Samasource have mobilised large pools of labour towards microtasks which, often ...
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The Digital Underclass Glitch: Theorising a Digital Labour Public through Fiction
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century WritingsAcceleration is central to the stories told of the network. This temporal pace is upheld by a digital labour public, optimised and sustained by the material and immaterial labour of endlessly replaceable and re-programmable human and nonhuman actors ...
Katy Dadacz
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Slaves to Technology: Worker control in the surveillance economy
Anti-Trafficking Review, 2020 Technology is enabling new forms of coercion and control over workers. While digital platforms for labour markets have been seen as benign or neutral technology, in reality they may enable new forms of worker exploitation.
Bama Athreya
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Digi-housekeeping: a new form of digital labour? [PDF]
, 2015 Event synopsis: The theme for the WORK2015 Conference, New Meanings of Work sought its justification not only from the changes in work itself but from the global shifts both in the divisions and in the contents of the work. The ongoing turbulences of the
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Non-Standard Forms of Employment: Recent Trends and Future Prospects [PDF]
, 2017 [Excerpt] The main focus of this paper is the growth of non-standard employment over the last decade. It finds that, apart from part-time work, there has not been an increase in non-standard employment during this time.
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