Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age by Ursula Huws
208 pages, $19 pb
ISBN: 978-1-58367-463-5
Reviewed by Seth Sandronsky
Who is the cybertariat? Why care? Ursula Huws, author of Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age (Monthly Review Press, 2014), has answers as a class-based technology shapes our world. An historical continuity emerges in her writing. This approach casts context on the current moment.
Huws delves into the technical nuts and bolts of modern class society. Work and workplaces shift amid a dizzying pace of change. The very ground beneath our feet constantly moves as industry integrates technology to better profit via control over consumers and employees. The effects are far-reaching, and decades in the making. On this front, nothing falls from the sky….
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