Digital work in the planetary market / / edited by Mark Graham and Fabian Ferrari.

• Superior document: International Development Research Centre
• TeilnehmendeR: Graham, Mark, 1980-; Ferrari, Fabian,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : The MIT Press,, [2022]
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: International Development Research Centre
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Understanding the embedded and disembedded, material and immaterial, territorialized and deterritorialized natures of digital work. Many jobs today can be done from anywhere. Digital technology and widespread internet connectivity allow almost anyone, anywhere, to connect to anyone else to communicate and exchange files, data, video, and audio. In other words, work can be deterritorialized at a planetary scale. This book examines the implications for both work and workers when work is commodified and traded beyond local labor markets. Going beyond the usual "world is flat" globalization discourse, contributors look at both the transformation of work itself and the wider systems, networks, and processes that enable digital work in a planetary market, offering both empirical and theoretical perspectives. The contributors -- leading scholars and experts from a range of disciplines -- touch on a variety of issues, including content moderation, autonomous vehicles, and voice assistants. They first look at the new experience of work, finding that, despite its planetary connections, labor remains geographically sticky and embedded in distinct contexts. They go on to consider how planetary networks of work can be mapped and problematized, discuss the productive multiplicity and interdisciplinarity of thinking about digital work and its networks, and, finally, imagine how planetary work could be regulated. Contributors Sana Ahmad, Payal Arora, Janine Berg, Antonio A. Casilli, Julie Chen, Christina Colclough, Fabian Ferrari, Mark Graham, Andreas Hackl, Matthew Hockenberry, Hannah Johnston, Martin Krzywdzinski, Johan Lindquist, Joana Moll, Brett Neilson, Usha Raman, Jara Rocha, Jathan Sadowski, Florian A. Schmidt, Cheryll Ruth Soriano, Nick Srnicek, James Steinhoff, Jara Rocha, JS Tan, Paola Tubaro, Moira Weigel, Lin Zhang.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Mark Graham and Fabian Ferrari -- Moving beyond Shanzhai? Contradictions of platformized family production in the planetary network of e-commerce labor / Lin Zhang -- How do workers survive and thrive in the platform economy? Evidence from China and Philippines / Julie Chen and Cheryll Ruth Soriano -- Follower factories in Indonesia and beyond : automation and labor in a transnational market / Johan Lindquist -- Moderating in obscurity : how Indian content moderators work in global content moderation value chains / Sana Ahmad and Martin Krzywdzinski -- Digital livelihoods in exile : refugee work and the planetary digital labor / Market Andreas Hackl -- Working the Digital Silk Road : Alibaba's digital free trade zone in Malaysia / Brett Neilson -- The global stacking order of multilayered crowd-AI systems / Florian A. Schmidt -- In search of stability at a time of upheaval : freelancing in Venezuela / Hannah Johnston -- Human listeners and virtual assistants : privacy and labor arbitrage in the production of smart technologies / Paola Tubaro and Antonio A. Casilli -- The proletarianization of data science / James Steinhoff -- Organizing in (and against) a new cold war : the case of 996.ICU / J.S. Tan and Moira Weigel -- Planetary Potemkin AI : the humans hidden inside mechanical minds / Jathan Sadowski -- Data, compute, labor / Nick Srnicek -- Cellular capitalism : life and labor at the end of the digital supply chain / Matthew Hockenberry -- An international governance system for digital work in the planetary market / Janine Berg -- Righting the wrong : putting workers' data rights firmly on the table Christina J. Colclough -- Fair work, feminist design, and women's labor collectives /Payal Arora and Usha Raman -- Tilt the scroll to repair : efficient inhuman workforce at global chains of care / Joana Moll and Jara Rocha