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DIGITAL LABOUR
The incursion against waged employment in favor of contingent work undermines worker rights in ways that are even more harmful than the actions by Thatcher and Reagan against miners and air traffic controllers in the 1980s.
The shift away from employment to freelancing, independent contract work, and other emerging forms of labor is an affront to one hundred years of labor struggles for the 8-hour-workday, employer-covered health insurance, minimum wage, the abolition of child care, workplace harassment, and many other protections that were established under the New Deal to foster social harmony and keep class warfare at bay.
ideological rhetoric that falsely describes emerging forms of digital labor through the lens of flexibility, self-reliance, and autonomy.
almost half of all Americans are economically insecure. They cannot afford basic needs like housing, childcare, food, healthcare, utilities, and other essentials.
It is imperative to ask and find answers to the question of who is watching out for the workers who toil under the auspices of labor brokers like CrowdFlower, Taskrabbit, Amazon, oDesk, and Uber, or “logo mills” like 99Designs
workers who wake up to go to work online every day are a complete blind spot in these discussions
Ultimately, the impulse behind this event is to shape new concepts and theories as they relate to the realities of wage theft and precarization but also proposals including guaranteed basic income and shorter working hours.
we hope to facilitate an advocacy group for some of the poorest and most exploited workers in the digital economy
Tiziana Terranova puts forward the idea of a “social strike,” as “a permanent experiment of invention and diffusion of forms of strikes that can be practiced also by those who cannot strike according to the traditional mode: the unemployed, the precarious, the domestic worker, the crowd worker.”
In this context she discusses Anonymous-style denial of service attacks, but also experimentation with popular forms of social network life such as personality tests, games, and viral link factories.
The Internet as Playground and Factory (Scholz, ed.), Living Labor (Hoegsberg and Fisher), and Cognitive Capitalism, Education, Digital Labour (Peters, Bulut, et al, eds.), and Dead Man Working (Cederstron and Fleming). Christian Fuchs’ book Digital Labor and Karl Marx was published months ago.
DIGITAL LABOUR
The incursion against waged employment in favor of contingent work undermines worker rights in ways that are even more harmful than the actions by Thatcher and Reagan against miners and air traffic controllers in the 1980s.
The shift away from employment to freelancing, independent contract work, and other emerging forms of labor is an affront to one hundred years of labor struggles for the 8-hour-workday, employer-covered health insurance, minimum wage, the abolition of child care, workplace harassment, and many other protections that were established under the New Deal to foster social harmony and keep class warfare at bay.
ideological rhetoric that falsely describes emerging forms of digital labor through the lens of flexibility, self-reliance, and autonomy.
almost half of all Americans are economically insecure. They cannot afford basic needs like housing, childcare, food, healthcare, utilities, and other essentials.
It is imperative to ask and find answers to the question of who is watching out for the workers who toil under the auspices of labor brokers like CrowdFlower, Taskrabbit, Amazon, oDesk, and Uber, or “logo mills” like 99Designs
workers who wake up to go to work online every day are a complete blind spot in these discussions
Ultimately, the impulse behind this event is to shape new concepts and theories as they relate to the realities of wage theft and precarization but also proposals including guaranteed basic income and shorter working hours.
we hope to facilitate an advocacy group for some of the poorest and most exploited workers in the digital economy
Tiziana Terranova puts forward the idea of a “social strike,” as “a permanent experiment of invention and diffusion of forms of strikes that can be practiced also by those who cannot strike according to the traditional mode: the unemployed, the precarious, the domestic worker, the crowd worker.”
In this context she discusses Anonymous-style denial of service attacks, but also experimentation with popular forms of social network life such as personality tests, games, and viral link factories.
The Internet as Playground and Factory (Scholz, ed.), Living Labor (Hoegsberg and Fisher), and Cognitive Capitalism, Education, Digital Labour (Peters, Bulut, et al, eds.), and Dead Man Working (Cederstron and Fleming). Christian Fuchs’ book Digital Labor and Karl Marx was published months ago.
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