Providing the Tools to Understand and Address the Profound Changes Reshaping the World of Work The Handbook of Digital Labor offers a groundbreaking examination of how digital technologies are transforming labor across the globe. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this innovative volume dissects the structures, processes, and impacts of digital capitalism while highlighting the collective struggles of workers. Spanning diverse sectors and geographies, it sheds light on the hidden dynamics of labor exploitation, resistance, and solidarity in both traditional and digital industries. Organized…mehr
Providing the Tools to Understand and Address the Profound Changes Reshaping the World of Work The Handbook of Digital Labor offers a groundbreaking examination of how digital technologies are transforming labor across the globe. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this innovative volume dissects the structures, processes, and impacts of digital capitalism while highlighting the collective struggles of workers. Spanning diverse sectors and geographies, it sheds light on the hidden dynamics of labor exploitation, resistance, and solidarity in both traditional and digital industries. Organized into four thematic sections - Working-Class Resistance, Digital Capitalism and Alternatives, Laboring under Digital Capitalism, and Theorizing Digital Labor - the Handbook provides a holistic exploration of historical and contemporary challenges facing workers. Essays by leading scholars delve into topics such as platform labor, AI-driven economies, environmental degradation, and the fight for worker dignity. Blending critical theory with practical insights, this handbook equips readers with the tools to understand and address the profound changes reshaping the world of work. The Handbook of Digital Labor is ideal for advanced students and researchers in labor studies, media and communication, and political economy. It is also an indispensable reference for labor organizers, unionists, policymakers, and anyone invested in fostering a more equitable and sustainable future for workers.
JACK LINCHUAN QIU is Chair and Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. SHINJOUNG YEO is an Associate Professor at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), and co-founder of the Information Observatory. RICHARD MAXWELL is a Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY). He specializes in the intersections of technology, labor, and environmental sustainability.
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Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xviii Introduction xix Jack Linchuan Qiu, ShinJoung Yeo, and Richard Maxwell Section I Working-Class Resistance 1 1 The Laboring of Labor Communication Research 3 Vincent Mosco 2 The Party's Over: Organizing Across the Contracting Divide at Google 18 Seamus B. Grayer and Enda Brophy 3 Organizing the Unorganized: The Case of Korean Truck Drivers-An Interview with Wol-san Liem 38 ShinJoung Yeo 4 "The Coal Machine/What Will a Coal Miner Do?" Automation, Financialization, and Union Mobilization in Underground US Coal Mining 57 Ericka Wills 5 Pathways to Worker Empowerment in the Digital Age: A Comparative Analysis of Unions and Co-operatives 77 Greig de Peuter and Nicole S. Cohen Section II Digital Capitalism and Alternatives 97 6 Digital Capitalism in the 2020s: Dividing the World 99 Dan Schiller 7 Labor and Surveillance: The Productivity of Being Watched 119 Mark Andrejevic 8 "We Don't Need Unions at Amazon.com": Historical Context and the Struggle to Organize an E-Commerce Giant 132 Timothy J. Minchin 9 From "Barefoot Electrician" to "Electronic Supervisor": Technology and Labor Politics in the Information Industry of China 158 Hongzhe Wang and Changwen Chen 10 Cybersyn: Into Alternative Digital Futures, Through a Chilean Rear-view Mirror 179 Jie Xiong 11 Regional Disadvantage: The Ongoing Exodus from Silicon Valley 201 Melissa Gregg Section III Laboring under Digital Capitalism 217 12 Global Inequalities in the Production of Artificial Intelligence: A Four-Country Study on Data Work 219 Antonio A. Casilli, Paola Tubaro, Maxime Cornet, Clément Le Ludec, Juana Torres-Cierpe, and Matheus Viana Braz 13 Platform-mediated Informal Employment, the State, and Labor Politics in China 233 Jenny Chan 14 "There is No Future in this Business." Further Platformization of Ride-hailing Service in China and the State's Intervening Policies under the COVID-19 Outbreak 248 Yanning Huang, Hanlin Chen, Qinyi Chen, Ruotong Jia, Jiaming Liu, Xueer Yan, and Yushu Yin 15 "It's Not A Job That You Can Take Off": Freedom and Precarity of Sex Workers in the Platform Economy 264 Margherita Di Cicco 16 "Calibrated Servitude": Agency, Relational Practice, and Postcolonial Dynamics in Cloudwork 290 Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano 17 The Digital Hustle: Precarity Beyond Platforms 307 Julia Ticona 18 Control and Flexibility in the Age of Globalized Production 324 Intan Suwandi Section IV Theorizing Digital Labor 349 19 Digital Labor and Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective 351 Christian Fuchs 20 Digital Labor and the Domestic Sphere 372 Leopoldina Fortunati and Arlen Austin 21 Labor and Value 392 Adam Arvidsson 22 Circuits of Labor: A Holistic Model for the Making and Unmaking of Class Through the iPhone 403 Jack Linchuan Qiu, Melissa Gregg, and Kate Crawford Index 421
Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xviii Introduction xix Jack Linchuan Qiu, ShinJoung Yeo, and Richard Maxwell Section I Working-Class Resistance 1 1 The Laboring of Labor Communication Research 3 Vincent Mosco 2 The Party's Over: Organizing Across the Contracting Divide at Google 18 Seamus B. Grayer and Enda Brophy 3 Organizing the Unorganized: The Case of Korean Truck Drivers-An Interview with Wol-san Liem 38 ShinJoung Yeo 4 "The Coal Machine/What Will a Coal Miner Do?" Automation, Financialization, and Union Mobilization in Underground US Coal Mining 57 Ericka Wills 5 Pathways to Worker Empowerment in the Digital Age: A Comparative Analysis of Unions and Co-operatives 77 Greig de Peuter and Nicole S. Cohen Section II Digital Capitalism and Alternatives 97 6 Digital Capitalism in the 2020s: Dividing the World 99 Dan Schiller 7 Labor and Surveillance: The Productivity of Being Watched 119 Mark Andrejevic 8 "We Don't Need Unions at Amazon.com": Historical Context and the Struggle to Organize an E-Commerce Giant 132 Timothy J. Minchin 9 From "Barefoot Electrician" to "Electronic Supervisor": Technology and Labor Politics in the Information Industry of China 158 Hongzhe Wang and Changwen Chen 10 Cybersyn: Into Alternative Digital Futures, Through a Chilean Rear-view Mirror 179 Jie Xiong 11 Regional Disadvantage: The Ongoing Exodus from Silicon Valley 201 Melissa Gregg Section III Laboring under Digital Capitalism 217 12 Global Inequalities in the Production of Artificial Intelligence: A Four-Country Study on Data Work 219 Antonio A. Casilli, Paola Tubaro, Maxime Cornet, Clément Le Ludec, Juana Torres-Cierpe, and Matheus Viana Braz 13 Platform-mediated Informal Employment, the State, and Labor Politics in China 233 Jenny Chan 14 "There is No Future in this Business." Further Platformization of Ride-hailing Service in China and the State's Intervening Policies under the COVID-19 Outbreak 248 Yanning Huang, Hanlin Chen, Qinyi Chen, Ruotong Jia, Jiaming Liu, Xueer Yan, and Yushu Yin 15 "It's Not A Job That You Can Take Off": Freedom and Precarity of Sex Workers in the Platform Economy 264 Margherita Di Cicco 16 "Calibrated Servitude": Agency, Relational Practice, and Postcolonial Dynamics in Cloudwork 290 Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano 17 The Digital Hustle: Precarity Beyond Platforms 307 Julia Ticona 18 Control and Flexibility in the Age of Globalized Production 324 Intan Suwandi Section IV Theorizing Digital Labor 349 19 Digital Labor and Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective 351 Christian Fuchs 20 Digital Labor and the Domestic Sphere 372 Leopoldina Fortunati and Arlen Austin 21 Labor and Value 392 Adam Arvidsson 22 Circuits of Labor: A Holistic Model for the Making and Unmaking of Class Through the iPhone 403 Jack Linchuan Qiu, Melissa Gregg, and Kate Crawford Index 421
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