Machine generated contents note: Introduction
The Need for Studying Digital Labour
The Disappearance and Return of Karl Marx
Theoretical Foundations of Studying Digital Labour
An Introduction to Karl Marx's Theory
Introduction
Marx on Work and Labour
Work and Labour in Society
Labour in Capitalism and Other Class Societies Work in Communism
Marx's Labour Theory of Value
The German Debate on Marx's Labour Theory of Value
A Reconstruction of Marx's Labour Theory of Value
Use-Value and Value
Exchange-Value
Money and Price
The Value and Price of Labour-Power
Surplus Value
Conclusion
Contemporary Cultural Studies and Karl Marx
Introduction
Lawrence Grossberg: Cultural Studies in the Future Tense
John Hartley: Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies
Paul Smith: The Renewal of Cultural Studies
Conclusion
Dallas Smythe and Audience Labour Today
Introduction
The Importance of Critical Political Economy, Critical Theory and Dallas Smythe
The Renewal of the Audience Labour- and Audience Commodity-Debate
Digital Labour: Capital Accumulation and Commodification on Social Media
Ideology, Play and Digital Labour
A Critique of the Critique of Digital Labour
Conclusion
Capitalism or Information Society?
Introduction
A Classification of Information Society Theories
An Alternative View of the Information Society
Information Society Indicators: Measuring the Information Society
Conclusion
Analysing Digital Labour: Case Studies
Digital Slavery: Slave Work in ICT-Related Mineral Extraction
Introduction
Marx on Modes of Production
Unpaid Work in the Family as Mode of Production
Ancient and Feudal Slavery as Modes of Production
The Capitalist Mode of Production
Informational Productive Forces
Digital Media and Minerals
The Productive Forces of Mineral Extraction in the International Division of Digital Labour: Labour-Power and the Objects, Tools and Products of Labour
The Relations of Production of Mineral Extraction in the International Division of Digital Labour
Conclusion
Exploitation at Foxconn: Primitive Accumulation and the Formal Subsumption of Labour
Introduction
Foxconn's Productive Forces in the International Division of Digital Labour: Labour-Power and the Objects, Tools and Products of Labour
Foxconn's Relations of Production in the International Division of Digital Labour
Conclusion
The New Imperialism's Division of Labour: Work in the Indian Software Industry
Introduction
The Indian Software Industry's Productive Forces in the International Division of Digital Labour: Labour-Power and the Objects, Tools and Products of Labour
The Indian Software Industry's Relations of Production in the International Division of Digital Labour
Conclusion
The Silicon Valley of Dreams and Nightmares of Exploitation: The Google Labour Aristocracy and Its Context
Introduction
Silicon Valley's Productive Forces in the International Division of Digital Labour: Labour-Power and the Objects, Tools and Products of Labour
The Relations of Production of Google and the Silicon Valley in the International Division of Digital Labour
Conclusion
Tayloristic, Housewifized Service Labour: The Example of Call Centre Work
Introduction
The Call Centre's Productive Forces in the International Division of Digital Labour: Labour-Power and the Objects, Tools and Products of Labour
The Call Centre's Relations of Production in the International Division of Digital Labour
Conclusion
Theorizing Digital Labour on Social Media
Introduction
Users and the Productive Forces in the International Division of Digital Labour: Labour-Power and the Objects, Tools and Products of Labour
Users and the Relations of Production in the International Division of Digital Labour
Digital Work on Social Media
Digital Labour on Social Media
Digital Labour and the Law of Value on Social Media
Conclusion
Conclusions
Digital Labour and Struggles for Digital Work: The Occupy Movement as a New Working-Class Movement? Social Media as Working-Class Social Media?
Conclusion of Chapters 2
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Digital Work and the Commons
The Occupy Movement: A New Working-Class Movement?
Social Movement Theory
The Occupy Movement in Contemporary Political Theory
The Occupy Movement's Self-Understanding
What Is the Occupy Movement?
Occupy, Digital Work and Working-Class Social Media
Social Movements, the Internet and Social Media
The Occupy Movement and Social Media
Position 1
Technological Determinism: The Occupy Movement (and Other Rebellions) Are Internet Rebellions
Position 2
Social Constructivism: We Have Been Witnessing Social Rebellions and Social Revolutions, Where Social Media Have Had Minor Importance; Social Media Are No Relevant Factor in Rebellions
Position 3
Dualism: Social Media Have Been an Important Tool of the Occupy Movement; There Are Technological and Societal Causes of the Movement
Position 4
Social Media and Contradictions: A Dialectical View
A Theoretical Classification of Social Media Use in the Occupy Movement
Conclusion
Digital Labour Keywords.