Digital Labour and Karl Marx (Hardcover)

How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and "social media" such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour and Karl Marx, Christian Fuchs attempts to answer that question, crafting a systematic critical theorisation of labour as performed in the capitalist ICT industry. Relying on a range of global case studies--from unpaid social media prosumers or Chinese hardware assemblers at Foxconn to miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo--Fuchs sheds light on the labour costs of digital media, examining the way ICT corporations exploit human labour and the impact of this exploitation on the lives, bodies, and minds of workers.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	2014
Authors:	Christian Fuchs
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	408
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-71615-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Political control & influence > Political campaigning & advertising
LSN:	0-415-71615-2
Barcode:	9780415716154

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