ISBN:
9780226815503
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (216 Seiten)
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DDC:
338.47004678
Keywords:
Digitalisierung
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Arbeit
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Arbeit
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Digitalisierung
Abstract:
The Digital Factory reveals the hidden human labor that supports todays digital capitalism. The workers of todays digital factory include those in Amazon warehouses, delivery drivers, Chinese gaming workers, Filipino content moderators, and rural American search engine optimizers. Repetitive yet stressful, boring yet often emotionally demanding, these jobs require little formal qualification, but can demand a large degree of skills and knowledge. This work is often hidden behind the supposed magic of algorithms and thought to be automated, but it is in fact highly dependent on human labor. The workers of todays digital factory are not as far removed from a typical auto assembly line as we might think. Moritz Altenried takes us inside todays digital factories, showing that they take very different forms, including gig economy platforms, video games, and Amazon warehouses. As Altenried shows, these digital factories often share surprising similarities with factories from the industrial age. As globalized capitalism and digital technology continue to transform labor around the world, Altenried offers a timely and poignant exploration of how these changes are restructuring the social division of labor and its geographies as well as the stratifications and lines of struggle.
Description / Table of Contents:
One:Workers Leaving the Factory: Introduction-Two:The Global Factory: Logistics-Three:The Factory of Play: Gaming Four The Distributed Factory: Crowdwork-Five:The Hidden Factory: Social Media-Six:The Platform as Factory: Conclusion-Seven:The Contagious Factory: Epilogue-Acknowledgments Notes-Bibliography-Index
DOI:
10.7208/chicago/9780226815503
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https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7208/chicago/9780226815503/html
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https://dx.doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226815503.001.0001/upso-9780226815497
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