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Labor in the Global Digital Economy : The Cybertariat Comes of Age.

Huws, Ursula.

Labor in the Global Digital Economy : The Cybertariat Comes of Age. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (209 pages)

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. WHAT WILL WE DO? The Destruction of Occupational Identities in the Knowledge-Based Economy -- 2. FIXED, FOOTLOOSE, OR FRACTURED: Work, Identity, and the Spatial Division of Labor in the Twenty-First-Century City -- 3. BEGGING AND BRAGGING: The Self and the Commodification of Intellectual Activity -- 4. THE GLOBALIZATION OF LABOR AND THE ROLE OF NATIONAL GOVERMENTS: Toward a Conceptual Framework -- 5. EXPRESSION AND EXPROPRIATION: The Dialectics of Autonomy and Control in Creative Labor -- 6. CRISIS AS CAPITALIST OPPORTUNITY: The New Accumulation through Public Service Commodification -- 7. THE UNDERPINNINGS OF CLASS IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Living, Labor, and Value -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

"Following on her brilliant The Making of a Cybertariat, a modern classic in the analysis of class and gender, work and consumption, Huws turns her sharp eye to the present crisis into which the cybertariat 'has come of age.' Rich in theoretical and methodological insights, Labor in the Global Digital Economy carefully guides us through the world of transnational business, value chains, creative, precarious and knowledge labor, self-service consumers, and consumption workers. Challenging accepted thinking and providing enough wisdom to fill several volumes, Huws has once again demonstrated her preeminence among analysts of work and inequality in digital capitalism."-Vincent Mosco, author, To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World.

9781583674659


Information technology -- Social aspects.
Capitalism -- Social aspects.
Work -- Social aspects.
Marxian economics.


Electronic books.

HM851 -- .H867 2014eb

303.48/33

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