Digital, Class, Work

Before and During COVID-19

AvJohn Michael Roberts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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This book provides a systematic account of the impact of COVID-19 on the digital labour process by situating its analysis within the broader and global perspective of neoliberalism and financialisation. It investigates how COVID-19 has both changed and strengthened neoliberal and financialised class relations in the digital workplace. By drawing on Marxist theory and numerous empirical studies, the book examines these areas both before and during COVID-19 by focusing on five distinctive digital labour and work processes: global 'productive' digital work processes in sectors like manufacturing; 'unproductive' digital work in sectors like retail and finance; creative industries; gig and platform work; and digital work in the state and public sector. It also maps out degrees of class struggle in and around exploitation, oppression and emancipatory potential in the digital workplace before and during the pandemic.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-06-22
Mått:156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt:592 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399502931

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John Michael Roberts is Professor of Sociology and Communications at Brunel University. His previous books include, Contemporary Left-Wing Activism, vols 1 and 2 (edited with J. Ibrahim, Routledge 2019), New Media and Public Activism (Policy Press 2014) and Digital Publics: Cultural Political Economy, Financialisation, and Organisational Politics (Routledge 2014).

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This is an important book that will be useful to all those concerned with the past, present and future of work in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Roberts deploys a theoretically sophisticated class analysis to discern emergent trends in capital-labour relations amongst firms using digital technologies.

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Introduction: Digital, Class, and Work Before and During COVID-19Digital Prosumer Labour: Two Schools of ThoughtAlienated Labour and Class RelationsNeoliberalism, Financialisation and Class Relations Before and During COVID-19Productive Digital Work Before and During COVID-19Unproductive Digital Work Before and During COVID-19Creative Industries and Creative Classes Before and During COVID-19Digital Labour in the Gig Economy Before and During COVID-19Digital Work in the State and Public Sector Before and During COVID-19Conclusions: Towards a Post-Covid-19 Politics of Class Struggle