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Author:
Dyer-Witheford, Nick, 1951- author.
Title:
Cyber-proletariat : global labour in the digital vortex / Nick Dyer-Witheford.
Publisher:
Between the Lines ;
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
248 pages ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Information technology--Social aspects.
Electronic industry workers--Social conditions.
Digital divide.
Computers--Social aspects.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-235) and index.
Contents:
Proletariat -- Vortex -- Cybernetic -- Silicon -- Circulation -- Mobile -- Globe -- Cascade -- Aftermath -- Front.
Summary:
"This book examines how technology facilitates growing polarisation between wealthy elites and precarious workers. Nick Dyer-Witheford reveals the class domination behind everything from expanding online surveillance to intensifying robotisation. At the same time, he explores the possibilities that information technology offers within radical movements, recasting contemporary struggles in the blue glow of the computer screen."
Series:
Digital barricades : interventions in digital culture and politics.
ISBN:
1783712805
9781783712809
1783712783
9781783712786
1783712791
9781783712793
1771132221
9781771132220
177113223X
9781771132237
0745334040
9780745334042
0745334032
9780745334035
1771132213
9781771132213
OCLC:
(OCoLC)903770138
LCCN:
2014482927
Locations:
PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

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