Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age
Published on 21. October 2015
Book
Hardback
XIII, 268 pages
978-1-137-47856-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XIII, 268 p.
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
465 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-47856-6 (9781137478566)
DOI
10.1057/9781137478573
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Persons
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.
Content
1. Introduction: Value and Labour in the Digital Age; Christian Fuchs and Eran Fisher 2. The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Weibo; Christian Fuchs 3. The Hands and Brains of Digital Culture. Arguments for an Inclusive Approach to Cultural Labour; Marisol Sandoval PART I: LABOUR AND CLASS 4. A Contribution to a Critique of the Concept Playbour; Arwid Lund 5. Marx in Chinese Online Space: Some Thoughts on the Labour Problem in Chinese Internet industries; Bingqing Xia PART II: THE LABOUR OF INTERNET USERS 6. The Exploitation of Audience Labour: A Missing Perspective on Communication and Capital in the Digital Era; Brice Nixon 7. Audience Labour on Social Media: Learning from Sponsored Stories; Eran Fisher 8. Advertising on Social Media: The Reality behind the Ideology of 'Free Access'. The Case of Chinese Social Media Platforms; Yuqi Na PART III: RENT AND THE COMMONS 9. Mapping Approaches to User Participation and Digital Labour: A Critical Perspective; Thomas Allmer, Sebastian Sevignani, Jernej Prodnik 10. Is the Concept of Rent Relevant to a Discussion of Surplus Value in the Digital World?; Olivier Fraysse 11. The Demise of the Marxian Law of Value? A Critique of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri; Jakob Rigi PART IV: PRODUCTIVITY IN REPRODUCTION 12. Devaluing Binaries: Marxist Feminism and the Value of Consumer Labour; Kylie Jarrett 13. The Concept of the Subsumption of Labour under Capital: Life Subsumption in Cognitive-Biocapitalism; Andrea Fumagalli 14. Form-Giving Fire: Creative Industries as Marx's 'Work of Combustion' and the Distinction between Productive and Unproductive Labour; Frederick H. Pitts