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Toward a Political Economy of ‘Audience Labour’ in the Digital Era
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2014 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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Journal of Migration and Health, 2021 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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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.
A Findlay +27 more
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Labour exploitation of Bulgarian migrants in Europe: coping mechanisms
Przegląd Socjologiczny, 2018 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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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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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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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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Labour Exploitation in Human Trafficking Law [PDF]
, 2021 The 2000 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime provides the first internationally agreed definition of the human trafficking.
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