Digital Labour and Karl MarxHow 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. |
Contents
An Introduction to Karl Marxs Theory | |
Contemporary Cultural Studies and Karl Marx | |
Dallas Smythe and Audience Labour Today | |
Media | |
Digital Slavery Slave Work in ICTRelated Mineral Extraction | |
Exploitation at Foxconn Primitive Accumulation and the Formal | |
The New Imperialisms Division of Labour Work in the Indian Software | |
Digital Labour and Struggles for Digital Work The Occupy Movement | |
Important Tool of the Occupy Movement There | |
Digital Labour Keywords | |
Bibliography | |
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