Digital Labour and Karl Marx

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Digital Labour and Karl Marx

Literary theory Library and information sciences / Museology Cultural studies Media studies Social classes Social theory Political science and theory Political campaigning and advertising Media, entertainment, information and communication industries Information technology: general topics

Author: Christian Fuchs

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Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 3rd January 2014

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 4 Mb

ISBN: 9781134747139


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.

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