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  title info:
    title: Labor in the global digital economy
    sub title: the cybertariat comes of age
  name:
    name part: Huws, Ursula.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 208 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It's a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is also the key to understanding its driving force, the relentless impulse to commodify our lives in every aspect. Ursula Huws ties together disparate economic, cultural, and political phenomena of the last few decades to form a provocative narrative about the shape of the global capitalist economy at present. She examines the way that advanced information and communications technology has opened up new fields of capital accumulation in culture and the arts, in the privatization of public services and in the commodification of human sociality by way of mobile devices and social networking. These trends are in turn accompanied by the dramatic restructuring of work arrangements, opening the way for new contradictions and new forms of labor solidarity and struggle around the planet. Labor in the Global Digital Economy is a forceful critique of our dizzying contemporary moment, one that goes beyond notions of mere connectedness or free-flowing information to illuminate the entrenched mechanisms of exploitation and control at the core of capitalism.
  note: by Ursula Huws.
  note: Includesbibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Capitalism
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Work
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Marxian economics
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Sociology
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: Labor
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Media & the Law
  classification: HM851 .H867 2014
  classification: 303.48/33
  identifier: 9781583674635 (pbk.)
  identifier: 1583674632 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9781583674642 (cloth)
  identifier: 1583674640 (cloth)
  identifier: 2014037145
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141006
    record change date: 20151206125440.0
    record identifier: in00003501969