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

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 communica...

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Superior document:International Development Research Centre
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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.
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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