Digital Labour and Karl Marx

by Christian Fuchs

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 unpaid social media prosumers or Chinese hardware assemblers at Foxconn 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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Economics, Philosophy, Sociology, History, Science, Politics

408 pages, Hardcover

First published November 4, 2013

About the author

Christian Fuchs is a leading critical theorist of communication and society. He is a Professor at the University of Westminster, co-editor of the open access journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, and the author of Digital Demagogue (Pluto, 2018) and Social Media: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 2017) amongst other works.

Reviews

[Sarphan Uzunoğlu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dijital emek tartışmaları üzerine önemli bir kaynak olan Fuchs'un bu kitabı, aynı zamanda Fuchs'un ilgili alandaki çoğu Routledge tarafından basılan derleme ve çalışmalarının da mirasını içeriyor.