Digital Workers, Urban Vectors, and New Economies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4437611 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francis Kuriakose (0000-0001-5255-5233), Deepa Kylasam Iyer (0000-0003-0159-4018) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 120 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 749-762 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-9443308 |
| OpenAlex | W4200492715 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
Platform capitalism has enabled digital platforms to bring producers, consumers, and workers in a multisided marketplace with the purpose of collecting data. The resulting commodification of materiality and sociality in the digital sphere and the proprietary control of data open opportunities for value creation and realization, quite distinct from the value propositions of industrial manufacturing. As the relationship between value generation and human labor becomes tenuous or invisible, management strategies to appropriate value extends beyond labor control to direct appropriation. This article explores how labor responds to such devices of control and appropriation by digital platforms. Using the typological approach, the study argues that labor resistance emerges as a direct response to the management strategies of platforms in the form of granular resistance, data activism, trade unions and workers' organization, and collective ownership
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Business · Capitalism · Commodification · Control (management) · Economics · Management · Market economy · Materiality (auditing) · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Sociality · Value (mathematics) · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Sharing Economy and Platforms
The Labour of User Co-Creators
Capital, Labour and Time
Work by app
Logged labour
Left Populism and Platform Capitalism
Postcapitalist precarious work and those in the ‘drivers’ seat
Labour in Contemporary Capitalism
Digital labour and development
Platform Capitalism ‘Made in China’? Intelligent Manufacturing, Taobao Villages and the Restructuring of Work
Thrown under the bus and outrunning it! The logic of Didi and taxi drivers’ labour and activism in the on-demand economy
The like economy
From the gene to the globe
Black box or hidden abode? The expansion and exposure of platform work managerialism
Beyond capitalist enclosure, commodification and alienation
Labor in Informational Capitalism and on the Internet
Value in Informational Capitalism and on the Internet
With a Different Marx
Platform Capitalism’s Hidden Abode
Fake friends
Reality TV the work of being watched
Free Labor
Networked but Commodified
Dependence and precarity in the platform economy
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