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Marx at the Arcade - Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle (Hardcover)
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Marx at the Arcade - Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle (Hardcover)
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Praise for Working the Phones: "A sharp reminder of the
difficulties faced by call-center workers." -The Financial Times
"Jamie Woodcock shows us what call-centers can tell us about
bleakness and resistance in the modern workplace." -VICE "Jamie
Woodcock's brilliant insider account of life in a British
call-center reveals the dirty realities of digital capitalism . . .
a book that is sure to become a classic." -Peter Fleming, author of
The Mythology of Work "Woodcock knows not only his theory but his
subject inside out. There's casualization, cruelty, and
regimentation, but also subversion, and his focus on employee
resistance offers a flicker of hope." -Times Higher Education In
Marx at the Arcade, acclaimed researcher Jamie Woodcock delves into
the hidden abode of the gaming industry. In an account that will
appeal to hardcore gamers, digital skeptics, and the
joystick-curious, Woodcock unravels the vast networks of artists,
software developers, and factory and logistics workers whose seen
and unseen labor flows into the products we consume on a gargantuan
scale. Along the way, he analyzes the increasingly important role
the gaming industry plays in contemporary capitalism and the
broader transformations of work and the economy that it embodies.
Jamie Woodcock is a sociologist of work, focusing on digital labor,
the gig economy, and resistance. He is currently a fellow at the
London School of Economics and is the author of the award-winning
Working the Phones (2016). He is on the editorial board of
Historical Materialism and an editor of Notes from Below, an online
journal of workers' inquiry.
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