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Labor in the Global Digital Economy reviewed in Radical Philosophy

Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age

Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age
208 pp, $19 pbk, ISBN 9781583674635
By Ursula Huws

Reviewed by Elinor Taylor

“When will work be over? This question, both urgent and plaintive, increasingly imposes itself as any fulfillment of the emancipatory promise of automation is indefinitely deferred and as work intensifies in both quality and quantity…. ¶ For Huws, the survival of capitalism through its most recent, still ongoing crisis is less a matter of ideological control and more a matter of the perpetuation of one of its fundamental dynamics: the need to continually open new fields of accumulation by bringing more areas of life within its scope, a dynamic Huws examines here in relation to art and culture, public services, and sociality….”

Read the entire review (of Huws and Peter Fleming’s The Mythology of Work) here Radical Philosophy 197_May-June 2016

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