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Christian Fuchs - Digital Labour and Karl Marx - 9780415716161 - V9780415716161
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Digital Labour and Karl Marx

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Description for Digital Labour and Karl Marx Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFD; JFSC; JHB; JHBA; JPA; JPVL; KNT; UB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.

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 Chinese workers at Foxconn Shenzhen 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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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415716161
SKU
V9780415716161
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Christian Fuchs
Christian Fuchs is professor of social media at the University of Westminster in London. He is the author of more than 180 academic publications in the fields of Internet studies, social media studies, critical social theory and information society studies. He is the chair of the European Sociological Association's Research Network 18 and co-founder of the ICTs and Society Network. ... Read more

Reviews for Digital Labour and Karl Marx
"The field of cultural studies offers a natural window for looking more closely at the role of labor in digital media. Although some pioneers in cultural studies began important work with respect to labor, Fuchs carefully describes how cultural studies has increasingly distanced itself from questions of class. Fuchs does a remarkable job of using Marxist theory to reinvigorate the ... Read more

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