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Mission Impossible? A Review of Kylie Jarrett’s Book "Digital Labor"
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2022 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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Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2012 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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Reflections from the Field: Disparate responses to labour exploitation in post-Katrina Louisiana
Anti-Trafficking Review, 2020 Hurricane Katrina was a devastating natural disaster that changed the landscape of the United States’ Gulf Coast. This was followed by a human-made disaster of failed policies, poor governmental oversight, and rampant labour abuse.
Leanne McCallum
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The labour exploitation continuum
, 2017 This chapter outlines the various forms of labour exploitation that exist. At the extreme end of the ‘continuum’ there is worker fatality both at work and through work. There are then extreme forms of non-fatal harm, including: chattel slavery; modern slavery; forced labour; human trafficking; and child labour. All of these extremes have criminal–legal
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Labouring in the Sex Industry: A Conversation with Sex Workers on Consent and Exploitation
Social Sciences, 2021 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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Temporary migration programmes: the cause or antidote for migrant worker exploitation in UK agriculture [PDF]
, 2018 The referendum result in Britain in 2016 and the potential loss of EU labour in the advent of a “hard Brexit” has raised pressing questions for sectors that rely on EU labour, such as agriculture.
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tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2020 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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Technomadic Work: From Promotional Vision to WashTech's Opposition
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2008 The purpose of this paper is to examine ‘technomadic’, or ‘technomediated’ mobile work at the levels of labour process and labour market. It investigates the promise of technomadic work at the level of the labour process, analyses the exploitation of ...
Michelle Rodino-Colocino
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Anti-Trafficking Review, 2015 This article examines the link between restrictive immigration schemes, specifically ‘tied visas’ and the selective application of labour laws, with exploitation of workers.
Daphne Demetriou
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Achieving the G20 gender equality target by tackling sexual exploitation through legal uniformity, extra territoriality and corporate responsibility [PDF]
, 2015 Exploitation of some individuals and groups by others is a depressingly familiar aspect of human society which enables one individual or group to succeed at the expense of another. Whilst not seeking to downplay abuse of men and male children, this paper
Gerry, F, Sjölin, C
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