Digital Labour and Karl Marx

by Christian Fuchs

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415716152
• ISBN13: 9780415716154
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"