Labor in the Global Digital Economy
Labor in the Global Digital Economy For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. She examines the way that advanced…
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Labor in the Global Digital Economy
For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. She examines the way that advanced information and communications technology has opened up new fields of capital accumulation: in culture and the arts, in the privatization of public services, and in the commodification of human sociality by way of mobile devices and social networking. 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, and political phenomena of the last few decades to form a provocative narrative about the shape of the global capitalist economy at present.
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