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.

About the author

JACK LINCHUAN QIU is Chair and Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. SHINJOUNG YEO is an Associate Professor at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), and co-founder of the Information Observatory. RICHARD MAXWELL is a Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY). He specializes in the intersections of technology, labor, and environmental sustainability.

Product details

• Authors: Qiu, Qiu, Jack L. (Nanyang Technological University Qiu, Jack Linchuan (Nanyang Technological Universi Qiu, Jack Maxwell Qiu
• Assisted by: Richard Maxwell (Editor), Jack Qiu (Editor), Jack L. Qiu (Editor), Qiu Jack Linchuan (Editor), Marisol Sandoval (Editor), Sandoval Marisol (Editor), Shinjoung Yeo (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2024
• EAN: 9781119981800
• ISBN: 978-1-119-98180-0
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General