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The Invisibility of Labour Trafficking in Spain. A Critical Analysis of Cases and Policies
One of the most remarkable challenges concerning global migration policies nowadays has to do with impeding the trafficking of migrant workers for the purposes of labour exploitation.
Silvia Rodríguez López
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How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites.
: The notion of audience labour has been an important contribution to Marxist political economy of the media. It revised the traditional political economy analysis, which focused on media ownership, by suggesting that media was also a site of production,
Eran Fisher
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Toward a Political Economy of ‘Audience Labour’ in the Digital Era
This article contributes to a political economic theory centred on the concept of “audience labour”. First, the previous use of the concept of audience labour is briefly traced and the process of rethinking the concept as the basis of a political ...
Brice Nixon
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Labour migration has become a crucial livelihood strategy in settings where employment options are limited. Such opportunities come with potential benefits but also introduce stressors.
Joelle Mak +2 more
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SUPPRESSION OF CHILD LABOUR – BRIEF OVERVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
The notion of child labour is well determined by relevant international instruments and it can be said that it is theoretically unquestionable. In practice, however, there are various concerns about how to distinguish legal child work from illegal child
Mario Reljanović
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Mission Impossible? A Review of Kylie Jarrett’s Book "Digital Labor"
This article reviews Kylie Jarrett’s new book Digital Labor (2022. Cambridge: Polity Press). Jarrett develops a precise definition of digital labour to meet the objection that the term has been over-extended.
Peter Goodwin
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Labour exploitation of Bulgarian migrants in Europe: coping mechanisms
Labour exploitation and its extreme forms, such as forced labour and trafficking of human beings, are not new phenomena. They are also present throughout Central and Eastern Europe and Bulgaria in particular. This article explores the mechanisms used by
Maria Velizarova, Vassil Kirov
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Labouring in the Sex Industry: A Conversation with Sex Workers on Consent and Exploitation
Sex work in all its forms is an occupation that belongs to the service industry, and like any other work, sexual labour is open to exploitation. However, the reason why sex work is seen to be different from other forms of labour is that it betrays the ...
Francine Tremblay
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Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation
This paper argues that Marxist political economy is a useful framework for understanding contemporary conditions of cultural work. Drawing on Karl Marx’s foundational concepts, labour process theory, and a case study of freelance writers, I argue that ...
Nicole S. Cohen
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In this paper, I shall attempt to respond to the charge that the digital labour theory, as developed by Christian Fuchs, doesn’t faithfully stick to the Marxist schema of the Labour Theory of Value by arguing that Marx’s critique of capitalism was based
Aishik Saha
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