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Digital Labour and Prosumer Capitalism
The US Matrix
Av Mathieu O'Neil, Olivier Frayssé
Inbunden, 2015
1098 kr
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In the digital age tasks are increasingly modularised and consumers are increasingly becoming prosumers. Replacing digital labour and prosumption within an American context and the wider political economy, this volume presents a critical account of the forces which shape contemporary subjects, …
Aesthetic Labour
Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism
Av Ana Sofia Elias, Rosalind Gill m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1534 kr
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This volume approaches questions about gender and the politics of appearance from a new perspective by developing the notion of aesthetic labour. Bringing together feminist writing regarding the ‘beauty myth’ with recent scholarship about new forms of work, the book suggests that in this moment of …
Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age
Av Christian Fuchs, Eran Fisher
Inbunden, 2015
989 kr
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This volume explores current interventions into the digital labour theory of value, proposing theoretical and empirical work that contributes to our understanding of Marx's labour theory of value, proposes how labour and value are transformed under conditions of virtuality, and employ the theory in …
Virtual Workers and the Global Labour Market
Av Juliet Webster, Keith Randle
Inbunden, 2016
1207 kr
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The emerging world of virtual work is not tied to physical workplaces or particular locations, but is dispersed and footloose. It is frequently precarious, and blurs the boundaries between work and non-work, production and consumption.Contributors to this wide-ranging volume of case studies …
Space, Place and Global Digital Work
Av Jörg Flecker
Inbunden, 2016
1098 kr
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This edited volume seeks to enhance our understanding ofthe concepts of space and place in the study of digital work. It argues thatwhile digital work is often presented as 'placeless', work always takes placesomewhere with a certain degree of local embeddedness. Contributors to thiscollection …
Labour in Contemporary Capitalism
What Next?
Av Ursula Huws
Inbunden, 2019
934 kr
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In this long-awaited book, Ursula Huws brings together the results of decades of prescient research on labour market transformation to provide an authoritative overview of the impacts of technological, economic, social and political change on working life in the 21st century.Placing current …
Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age
Av Christian Fuchs, Eran Fisher
Häftad, 2015
552 kr
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This volume explores current interventions into the digital labour theory of value, proposing theoretical and empirical work that contributes to our understanding of Marx's labour theory of value, proposes how labour and value are transformed under conditions of virtuality, and employ the theory in …
Aesthetic Labour
Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism
Av Ana Sofia Elias, Rosalind Gill m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
1534 kr
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This volume approaches questions about gender and the politics of appearance from a new perspective by developing the notion of aesthetic labour. Bringing together feminist writing regarding the ‘beauty myth’ with recent scholarship about new forms of work, the book suggests that in this moment of …
Language Put to Work
The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce
Av Enda Brophy
Häftad, 2018
312 kr
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WINNER of The Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize, awarded by the Canadian Communication Association, and the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies, Book of the Year Award. This book examines the striking rise of call centres over the past quarter century through the lens of the resistance …
Digital Entrepreneurship, Gender and Intersectionality
An East Asian Perspective
Häftad, 2018
551 kr
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This book details qualitative research focusing on Internet startups, digital entrepreneurship, race and sex discrimination, and the sharing economy. Addressing the intersections between issues of gender, age, ethnicity and class, the author interviews startup founders, including many husband and …
Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction
Av Paško Bilić, Jaka Primorac m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
989 kr
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This book is situated in the nexus between technology, labour and politics. It focuses on contradictions as heuristic devices that uncover struggles, frictions and ambiguities of digitalization in work and labour environments. Topics include contradictions in automation, internet platforms, digital …
Creative Hubs in Question
Place, Space and Work in the Creative Economy
Av Rosalind Gill, Andy C. Pratt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1643 kr
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Creative hubs have become a cornerstone of economic and cultural policy with only the barest amount of discussion or scrutiny. This volume offers the first interrogation of creative hubs, with ground-breaking critical writing from a combination of established scholars and new voices. Looking across …
Social Meaning of Extra Money
Capitalism and the Commodification of Domestic and Leisure Activities
Av Sidonie Naulin, Anne Jourdain
Inbunden, 2019
1425 kr
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Why do ordinary people who used to engage in domestic and leisure activities for free now try to make a profit from them? How and why do people commodify their free time? This book explores the marketization of blogging, cooking, craftwork, gardening, knitting, selling second-hand items, …
Social Meaning of Extra Money
Capitalism and the Commodification of Domestic and Leisure Activities
Av Sidonie Naulin, Anne Jourdain
Häftad, 2020
1425 kr
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Why do ordinary people who used to engage in domestic and leisure activities for free now try to make a profit from them? How and why do people commodify their free time? This book explores the marketization of blogging, cooking, craftwork, gardening, knitting, selling second-hand items, …
Corporate Capitalism's Use of Openness
Profit for Free?
Av Arwid Lund, Mariano Zukerfeld
Inbunden, 2020
1316 kr
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“Matching the rigour of the analysis with an extraordinary pedagogical capacity, the authors unveil all the arcana of the ‘openness’ capitalism model and digital labour. Essential for scholars and students across the social and economic sciences.” (Carlo Vercellone, Université de Paris 8, …
Corporate Capitalism's Use of Openness
Profit for Free?
Av Arwid Lund, Mariano Zukerfeld
Häftad, 2021
1316 kr
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“Matching the rigour of the analysis with an extraordinary pedagogical capacity, the authors unveil all the arcana of the ‘openness’ capitalism model and digital labour. Essential for scholars and students across the social and economic sciences.” (Carlo Vercellone, Université de Paris 8, …
Bodies of Work
The Labour of Sex in the Digital Age
Inbunden, 2020
551 kr
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This book is a timely and innovative exploration of the vital relationship between sex and capitalism in the digital age. It provides a lively, provocative analysis of how specifically digital forms of capitalist accumulation and labour shape and discipline the contemporary sexual body. Rebecca …
Bodies of Work
The Labour of Sex in the Digital Age
Häftad, 2021
551 kr
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This book is a timely and innovative exploration of the vital relationship between sex and capitalism in the digital age. It provides a lively, provocative analysis of how specifically digital forms of capitalist accumulation and labour shape and discipline the contemporary sexual body. Rebecca …
Agile Imperative
Teams, Organizations and Society under Reconstruction?
Av Sabine Pfeiffer, Manuel Nicklich m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1425 kr
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In an ever-changing working environment, customer and workplace demands have brought new challenges to how we organize and manage work. Increasingly, this is addressed by the idea of 'agility.' From its beginning, agile work has claimed to be a radically different approach which allows …
Topologies of Digital Work
How Digitalisation and Virtualisation Shape Working Spaces and Places
Av Mascha Will-Zocholl, Caroline Roth-Ebner
Inbunden, 2022
1316 kr
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This book provides a unique contribution to the controversial discussion that surrounds the digitalisation and virtualisation of work. With a focus on the new formation of space and place, it critically discusses the idea that places in the context of work are increasingly losing their importance, …
Topologies of Digital Work
How Digitalisation and Virtualisation Shape Working Spaces and Places
Av Mascha Will-Zocholl, Caroline Roth-Ebner
Häftad, 2023
934 kr
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This book provides a unique contribution to the controversial discussion that surrounds the digitalisation and virtualisation of work. With a focus on the new formation of space and place, it critically discusses the idea that places in the context of work are increasingly losing their importance, …
Representation of Workers in the Digital Era
Organizing a Heterogeneous Workforce
Av Raquel Rego, Hermes Augusto Costa
Inbunden, 2022
341 kr
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This book compiles empirical evidence on both the challenges raised by neo-liberal policies and the internet to trade unions, and the development of more flexible forms of worker organisation and collective representation. The relationship with digital devices seems inevitably to contribute to …
Platformization and Informality
Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation
Inbunden, 2023
1425 kr
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In this edited volume, scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru, Jakarta, Cape Town, Sao Paulo and other cities of the global South explore the complex relationship between platformization and informality through a different lens. Drawing on extensive theoretical, quantitative and qualitative scholarship, …
Platformization and Informality
Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation
Häftad, 2024
1425 kr
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In this edited volume, scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru, Jakarta, Cape Town, Sao Paulo and other cities of the global South explore the complex relationship between platformization and informality through a different lens. Drawing on extensive theoretical, quantitative and qualitative scholarship, …
Global Creative Ecosystems
A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production
Inbunden, 2023
1425 kr
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This book reorients the lens of global creative economies in order to focus on ecological articulations of cultural production ecosystems. While numerous volumes and studies exist of how cities and regions all over the world produce culture, this volume uses a creative ecosystems perspective to …
Global Creative Ecosystems
A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production
Häftad, 2024
1425 kr
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This book reorients the lens of global creative economies in order to focus on ecological articulations of cultural production ecosystems. While numerous volumes and studies exist of how cities and regions all over the world produce culture, this volume uses a creative ecosystems perspective to …
Rise of the Information Technology Society in India
Capitalism and the Construction of a Vulnerable Workforce
Inbunden, 2024
1425 kr
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This book is a study of workers in India’s Informational Technology sector, and focuses on how the past three decades of neoliberal economic reforms have impacted the efforts to organize the workers in the sector given the socio-political and economic setbacks encountered by the broader labour …
Rise of the Information Technology Society in India
Capitalism and the Construction of a Vulnerable Workforce
Häftad, 2025
1425 kr
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This book is a study of workers in India’s Informational Technology sector, and focuses on how the past three decades of neoliberal economic reforms have impacted the efforts to organize the workers in the sector given the socio-political and economic setbacks encountered by the broader labour …
Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy
The Intersection of Migrant Labour, Platform Capitalism, and Resistance
Av Francesco Della Puppa, Dipsita Dhar m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1534 kr
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This book explores the gig economy and the role of migrant workers, which has been widely documented, but under-researched. In the last forty years work and employment in the advanced economies has undergone profound transformations and, more recently, a key role has been played by the development …
Uberization and Overexploitation
Racial Platform Capitalism in Paris, London and Montréal
Inbunden, 2025
1316 kr
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This book examines “uberization” “from below”, by focusing on three major cities (Paris, London and Montreal) and on the individual situations of Uber drivers, to analyse the deployment of “racial platform capitalism”. Racialized men are over-represented among Uber drivers and the book argues that …
