Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-388) and index.
Contents:
3.3. 1. John Hartley: Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies 1.1. The Need for Studying Digital Labour -- 1.2. The Disappearance and Return of Karl Marx -- pt. I Theoretical Foundations of Studying Digital Labour -- 2. An Introduction to Karl Marx's Theory -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Marx on Work and Labour -- 2.2.1. Work and Labour in Society -- 2.2.2. Labour in Capitalism and Other Class Societies -- 2.2.3. Work in Communism -- 2.3. Marx's Labour Theory of Value -- 2.3.1. The German Debate on Marx's Labour Theory of Value -- 2.3.2. A Reconstruction of Marx's Labour Theory of Value -- 2.3.2.1. Use-Value and Value -- 2.3.2.2. Exchange-Value -- 2.3.2.3. Money and Price -- 2.3.2.4. The Value and Price of Labour-Power -- 2.3.2.5. Surplus Value -- 2.4. Conclusion -- 3. Contemporary Cultural Studies and Karl Marx -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Lawrence Grossberg: Cultural Studies in the Future Tense -- 3.3. John Hartley: Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies 6.2.2. Ancient and Feudal Slavery as Modes of Production 3.5. Conclusion -- 4. Dallas Smythe and Audience Labour Today -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. The Importance of Critical Political Economy, Critical Theory and Dallas Smythe -- 4.3. The Renewal of the Audience Labour- and Audience Commodity-Debate -- 4.4. Digital Labour: Capital Accumulation and Commodification on Social Media -- 4.5. Ideology, Play and Digital Labour -- 4.6. A Critique of the Critique of Digital Labour -- 4.7. Conclusion -- 5. Capitalism or Information Society? -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. A Classification of Information Society Theories -- 5.3. An Alternative View of the Information Society -- 5.4. Information Society Indicators: Measuring the Information Society -- 5.5. Conclusion -- pt. II Analysing Digital Labour: Case Studies -- 6. Digital Slavery: Slave Work in ICT-Related Mineral Extraction -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Marx on Modes of Production -- 6.2.1. Unpaid Work in the Family as Mode of Production -- 6.2.2. Ancient and Feudal Slavery as Modes of Production 8.2. The Indian Software Industry's Productive Forces in the International Division of Digital Labour: Labour-Power and the Objects, Tools and Products of Labour 6.2.4. Informational Productive Forces -- 6.3. Digital Media and Minerals -- 6.4. The Productive Forces of Mineral Extraction in the International Division of Digital Labour: Labour-Power and the Objects, Tools and Products of Labour -- 6.5. The Relations of Production of Mineral Extraction in the International Division of Digital Labour -- 6.6. Conclusion -- 7. Exploitation at Foxconn: Primitive Accumulation and the Formal Subsumption of Labour -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Foxconn's Productive Forces in the International Division of Digital Labour: Labour-Power and the Objects, Tools and Products of Labour -- 7.3. Foxconn's Relations of Production in the International Division of Digital Labour -- 7.4. Conclusion -- 8. The New Imperialism's Division of Labour: Work in the Indian Software Industry -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. The Indian Software Industry's Productive Forces in the International Division of Digital Labour: Labour-Power and the Objects, Tools and Products of Labour 11. Theorizing Digital Labour on Social Media 8.4. Conclusion -- 9. The Silicon Valley of Dreams and Nightmares of Exploitation: The Google Labour Aristocracy and Its Context -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Silicon Valley's Productive Forces in the International Division of Digital Labour: Labour-Power and the Objects, Tools and Products of Labour -- 9.3. The Relations of Production of Google and the Silicon Valley in the International Division of Digital Labour -- 9.4. Conclusion -- 10. Tayloristic, Housewifized Service Labour: The Example of Call Centre Work -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. The Call Centre's Productive Forces in the International Division of Digital Labour: Labour-Power and the Objects, Tools and Products of Labour -- 10.3. The Call Centre's Relations of Production in the International Division of Digital Labour -- 10.4. Conclusion -- 11. Theorizing Digital Labour on Social Media 12.4. Occupy, Digital Work and Working-Class Social Media 11.2. Users and the Productive Forces in the International Division of Digital Labour: Labour-Power and the Objects, Tools and Products of Labour -- 11.3. Users and the Relations of Production in the International Division of Digital Labour -- 11.3.1. Digital Work on Social Media -- 11.3.2. Digital Labour on Social Media -- 11.3.3. Digital Labour and the Law of Value on Social Media -- 11.4. Conclusion -- pt. III Conclusions -- 12. Digital Labour and Struggles for Digital Work: The Occupy Movement as a New Working-Class Movement? Social Media as Working-Class Social Media? -- 12.1. Conclusion of Chapters 2 -- 11 -- 12.2. Digital Work and the Commons -- 12.3. The Occupy Movement: A New Working-Class Movement? -- 12.3.1. Social Movement Theory -- 12.3.2. The Occupy Movement in Contemporary Political Theory -- 12.3.3. The Occupy Movement's Self-Understanding -- 12.3.4. What Is the Occupy Movement? -- 12.4. Occupy, Digital Work and Working-Class Social Media 13. Digital Labour Keywords. 12.4.2. The Occupy Movement and Social Media -- 12.4.2.1. Position 1 -- Technological Determinism: The Occupy Movement (and Other Rebellions) Are Internet Rebellions -- 12.4.2.2. Position 2 -- Social Constructivism: We Have Been Witnessing Social Rebellions and Social Revolutions, Where Social Media Have Had Minor Importance; Social Media Are No Relevant Factor in Rebellions -- 12.4.2.3. Position 3 -- Dualism: Social Media Have Been an Important Tool of the Occupy Movement; There Are Technological and Societal Causes of the Movement -- 12.4.2.4. Position 4 -- Social Media and Contradictions: A Dialectical View -- 12.4.3. A Theoretical Classification of Social Media Use in the Occupy Movement -- 12.5. Conclusion -- 13. Digital Labour Keywords.
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