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Digital Labour and Karl Marx

Fuchs, Christian·2014·Routledge eBooks
DOI 10.4324/9781315880075
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How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and "social media" such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour and Karl Marx, Christian Fuchs attempts to answer that question, crafting a systematic critical theorisation of labour as performed in the capitalist ICT industry. Relying on a range of global case studies--from unpaid social media prosumers or Chinese hardware assemblers at Foxconn to miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo--Fuchs sheds light on the labour costs of digital media, examining the way ICT corporations exploit human labour and the impact of this exploitation on the lives, bodies, and minds of workers.

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Authors
Fuchs, C.
Corresponding author
Fuchs, Christian
ORCID
Fuchs, Christian
Venue
Routledge eBooks
Publisher
Routledge
Published
2014-01-03
DOI
10.4324/9781315880075
OpenAlex
W178437142
Cited by
853
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Citations by year
2026: 119 · 2025: 102 · 2024: 48 · 2023: 79 · 2022: 54 · 2021: 60 · 2020: 73 · 2019: 52 · 2018: 65 · 2017: 61 · 2016: 66 · 2015: 54 · 2014: 17 · 2013: 2
FWCI
63.17
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
  • WestminsterResearch (University of Westminster) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Digital Economy and Work Transformation
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Economy and Marxism
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Industrial relations › Legal and Labor Studies
Keywords
digital labor, Karl Marx, ICT sector, labor exploitation, Foxconn, digital media, capitalism

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