Cyber-proletariat
Subtitle: global labour in the digital vortex
By: Nick Dyer-Witheford
Series: Digital barricades: interventions in digital culture and politics; Digital barricades
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780745334042; 9780745334035; 9781771132213
Subjects: Social conditions; Electronic industry workers; Social aspects; Computers; Digital divide; Information technology
Description: "This book examines how technology facilitates growing polarization between wealthy elites and precarious workers. Nick Dyer-Witheford reveals the class domination behind everything from expanding online surveillance to intensifying robotisation. At the same time, he explores the possibilities that information technology offers within radical movements, recasting contemporary struggles in the blue glow of the computer screen" -- cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-235) and index (pages 236-248).
Table of contents: title: Series preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Proletariat; title: Vortex; title: Cybernetic; title: Silicon; title: Circulation; title: Mobile; title: Globe; title: Cascade; title: Aftermath; title: Front; title: Bibliography; title: Index.