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The digital continent : placing Africa in planetary networks of work /

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The Digital Continent investigates what the impact of the growth of digital work in Africa means for workers. The volume draws on a year-long field study conducted in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Uganda to provide one of the first empirical studies on the topic.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anwar, Mohammad Amir (Author)
Other Authors: Graham, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2022.
Subjects:
Labor > Africa.
Internet > Economic aspects > Africa.
Technological innovations > Economic aspects > Africa.
Travail > Afrique.
Internet > Aspect économique > Afrique.
Innovations > Aspect économique > Afrique.
Internet > Economic aspects
Labor
Technological innovations > Economic aspects
Africa
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue. Making visible the invisible
  • Hopes and realities of the digital
  • Africa's new digital connectivity and economic change
  • Economic geographies of digital work in Africa
  • Digital work, human labour, and development
  • Digital taylorism : freedom, flexibility, precarity, and vulnerability
  • Resilience, reworking, and resistance : hidden transcripts of the gig economy
  • Futures of work : making a fairer world for labour
  • Appendix. Fieldwork overview.