The Handbook of Digital Labor

"The combination of digital media saturating daily work and life and the expansion of capitalism as a global system has brought radical change to who is laboring, how, where, and when. Changing occupational structures, deteriorating working conditions, and the rise of AI, social media, and digital platforms such as Amazon have created a pressing demand for a new examination of the effects of digital labor in an economic landscape increasingly dominated by digital technologies and communication. The Handbook of Digital Labor situates digital labor across the economy and calls for a re-examination of global contemporary capitalism in order to imagine the emancipation of the working class and to consider the future of digital work. This new Handbook aims to connect theoretical, historic, and pedagogical examinations of digital labor and media economy as an area of study to worker advocacy and movements of social change. Chapters by experts in the field offer a robust survey of the history of digital labor and the explosive rise in digitized work, as well as the ways in which labor conditions have changed, creating a new gig economy'"--