Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age

by Ursula Huws

Book Overview

For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It's a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is also the key to understanding its driving force: the relentless impulse to commodify our lives in every aspect.

Ursula Huws ties together disparate economic, cultural,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583674632
• ISBN13: 9781583674635
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"