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While the working lives of tech entrepreneurs and delivery platform
workers seem far removed, both are engaged in digital labor. What
unites their experience and allows us to speak of their work under
the same umbrella? Is it even possible to talk about digital labor
as if it were a single form of work? Digital Labor explores these
questions and critically examines the economics, politics, and
experiences of workers in these new modes of employment. Using a
novel definition of the term "digital labor," Kylie Jarrett
explores unpaid user activity, platform-mediated gig work, and
formal employment within the digital media industries, mapping the
common features of these varied practices. Applying a critical
Marxian lens, the book interrogates the structures of exploitation
in this sector, the organisation of the labor process, the dynamics
of alienation associated with this work, and the commodification of
workers' lives. It also documents the struggle of digital laborers
to resist the iniquities and inequalities of their working
environments. Ultimately, the book identifies what is specific
about this form of labor and, in doing so, offers insight into the
nature of work as it is being reconstituted in digital capitalism.
Synthesising an extensive range of studies and sources, Digital
Labor offers a comprehensive overview - and a rich critical
appraisal - of work in the high-tech economy. It is suitable for
students and scholars of media and communication, sociology, labour
studies, and anyone interested in emerging forms of work.
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