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Digital, Class, Work : Before and During COVID-19

by John Michael Roberts

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 139950293X
ISBN-13 9781399502931
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jun 22nd, 2022
Print length 296 Pages
Weight 592 grams
Dimensions 16.10 x 24.20 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification: Society & culture: general Social classes Central government policies Political economy Industrial relations, health & safety
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Explores the changing nature of digital labour and work both before and during the Covid-19 pandemic

This book examines class relations through numerous empirical case studies, reports, and other sets of data before and during COVID-19. It is divided in four distinctive work processes – the global ‘productive’ digital work process, which comprises areas like manufacturing; ‘unproductive’ commercial digital work, which comprises sectors like the creative industries, retail and services; digital gig work practices; and the state and public work sectors. Roberts maps class relations in these work processes to three types of digital work: digital labour (or, what is commonly known as platform labour); digitisation of labour (the application of digital technology to everyday work practices); and digitised labour (when automation and smart machines replace ‘real’ workers in an organisation). Situating the analysis within the broader and global perspective of neoliberalism and financialisation, it demonstrates how the use of digital technology in many workplaces and labour processes has benefited ‘unproductive’ global capital, particularly capital in the unproductive financial sector.

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