The Handbook of Digital Labor

Providing the Tools to Understand and Address the Profound Changes Reshaping the World of Work

The Handbook of Digital Labor offers a groundbreaking examination of how digital technologies are transforming labor across the globe. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this innovative volume dissects the structures, processes, and impacts of digital capitalism while highlighting the collective struggles of workers. Spanning diverse sectors and geographies, it sheds light on the hidden dynamics of labor exploitation, resistance, and solidarity in both traditional and digital industries.

Organized into four thematic sections - Working-Class Resistance, Digital Capitalism and Alternatives, Laboring under Digital Capitalism, and Theorizing Digital Labor - the Handbook provides a holistic exploration of historical and contemporary challenges facing workers. Essays by leading scholars delve into topics such as platform labor, AI-driven economies, environmental degradation, and the fight for worker dignity. Blending critical theory with practical insights, this handbook equips readers with the tools to understand and address the profound changes reshaping the world of work.

The Handbook of Digital Labor is ideal for advanced students and researchers in labor studies, media and communication, and political economy. It is also an indispensable reference for labor organizers, unionists, policymakers, and anyone invested in fostering a more equitable and sustainable future for workers.