Name: Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age
ISBN: 978-1-137-47857-3

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Eran Fisher⁰,
Christian Fuchs¹

Eran Fisher
1. Open University of Israel, Israel
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Christian Fuchs
1. University of Westminster, UK
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Part of the book series: Dynamics of Virtual Work (DVW)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xiii

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Foundations
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 1-1
  
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2. Introduction: Value and Labour in the Digital Age
  
  Christian Fuchs, Eran Fisher
  
  Pages 3-25
3. The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Weibo
  
  Christian Fuchs
  
  Pages 26-41
4. The Hands and Brains of Digital Culture: Arguments for an Inclusive Approach to Cultural Labour
  
  Marisol Sandoval
  
  Pages 42-59
Labour and Class
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 61-61
  
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2. A Contribution to a Critique of the Concept Playbour
  
  Arwid Lund
  
  Pages 63-79
3. Marx in Chinese Online Space: Some Thoughts on the Labour Problem in Chinese Internet Industries
  
  Bingqing Xia
  
  Pages 80-95
The Labour of Internet Users
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 97-97
  
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2. The Exploitation of Audience Labour: A Missing Perspective on Communication and Capital in the Digital Era
  
  Brice Nixon
  
  Pages 99-114
3. Audience Labour on Social Media: Learning from Sponsored Stories
  
  Eran Fisher
  
  Pages 115-132
4. Advertising on Social Media: The Reality behind the Ideology of “Free Access”: The Case of Chinese Social Media Platforms
  
  Yuqi Na
  
  Pages 133-150
Rent and the Commons
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 151-151
  
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2. Mapping Approaches to User Participation and Digital Labour: A Critical Perspective
  
  Thomas Allmer, Sebastian Sevignani, Jernej Amon Prodnik
  
  Pages 153-171
3. Is the Concept of Rent Relevant to a Discussion of Surplus Value in the Digital World?
  
  Olivier Frayssé
  
  Pages 172-187
4. The Demise of the Marxian Law of Value? A Critique of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
  
  Jakob Rigi
  
  Pages 188-204
Productivity in Reproduction
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 205-205
  
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2. Devaluing Binaries: Marxist Feminism and the Value of Consumer Labour
  
  Kylie Jarrett
  
  Pages 207-223
3. The Concept of Subsumption of Labour to Capital: Towards Life Subsumption in Bio-Cognitive Capitalism
  
  Andrea Fumagalli
  
  Pages 224-245
4. Form-Giving Fire: Creative Industries as Marx’s “Work of Combustion” and the Distinction between Productive and Unproductive Labour
  
  Frederick H. Pitts
  
  Pages 246-260

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This volume explores current interventions into the digital labour theory of value, proposing theoretical and empirical work that contributes to our understanding of Marx's labour theory of value, proposes how labour and value are transformed under conditions of virtuality, and employ the theory in order to shed light on specific practices.

Editors and Affiliations

Open University of Israel, Israel

Eran Fisher
University of Westminster, UK

Christian Fuchs

About the editors

Thomas Allmer, University of Edinburgh, UK. Olivier Frayssé, University of Paris Sorbonne, France. Andrea Fumagalli, University of Pavia, Italy. Kylie Jarrett, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland. Arwid Lund, University of Uppsala, Sweden. Yuqi Na, University of Westminster, UK. Brice Nixon, University of La Verne, US. Frederick H. Pitts, University of Bath, UK. Jernej Amon Prodnik, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Jakob Rigi, SOAS, London University, UK. Marisol Sandoval, City University London, UK. Sebastian Sevignani, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Germany. Bingqing Xia, Macau University of Science and Technology, China.

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Book Title: Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age
Editors: Eran Fisher, Christian Fuchs
Series Title: Dynamics of Virtual Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137478573
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47856-6Published: 21 October 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-57077-5Published: 22 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47857-3Published: 21 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2947-9290
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9304
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 268
Topics: Sociology of Work, Political Theory, Sociology of Culture, Social Theory, Sociology, general, Regional and Cultural Studies

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Foundations

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Labour and Class

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The Labour of Internet Users

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Rent and the Commons

Front Matter

Productivity in Reproduction

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Keywords

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Editors and Affiliations

Open University of Israel, Israel

University of Westminster, UK

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