Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age
Editors: Fuchs, Christian, Fisher, Eran (Eds.)
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction: Value and Labour in the Digital Age
Pages 3-25
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The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Weibo
Pages 26-41
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The Hands and Brains of Digital Culture: Arguments for an Inclusive Approach to Cultural Labour
Pages 42-59
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A Contribution to a Critique of the Concept Playbour
Pages 63-79
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Marx in Chinese Online Space: Some Thoughts on the Labour Problem in Chinese Internet Industries
Pages 80-95
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age
- Editors
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- Christian Fuchs
- Eran Fisher
- Series Title
- Dynamics of Virtual Work
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-47857-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137478573
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-47856-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-57077-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 268
- Topics