<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Örsan Şenalp</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orsan1234@gmail.com">orsan1234@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:50 AM<br>Subject: [Networkedlabour] Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age by Ursula Huws<br>To: "<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>><br><br><br>Have to share this impatiently, Ursula. Congratulations:<br>
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Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age by Ursula Huws<br>
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out from Monthly Press! - <a href="http://monthlyreview.org/books/pb4635/" target="_blank">http://monthlyreview.org/books/pb4635/</a><br>
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For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more<br>
will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It’s a situation<br>
that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it<br>
is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is<br>
also the key to understanding its driving force: the relentless<br>
impulse to commodify our lives in every aspect.<br>
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Ursula Huws ties together disparate economic, cultural, and political<br>
phenomena of the last few decades to form a provocative narrative<br>
about the shape of the global capitalist economy at present. She<br>
examines the way that advanced information and communications<br>
technology has opened up new fields of capital accumulation: in<br>
culture and the arts, in the privatization of public services, and in<br>
the commodification of human sociality by way of mobile devices and<br>
social networking. These trends are in turn accompanied by the<br>
dramatic restructuring of work arrangements, opening the way for new<br>
contradictions and new forms of labor solidarity and struggle around<br>
the planet. Labor in the Global Digital Economy is a forceful critique<br>
of our dizzying contemporary moment, one that goes beyond notions of<br>
mere connectedness or free-flowing information to illuminate the<br>
entrenched mechanisms of exploitation and control at the core of<br>
capitalism.<br>
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Following on her brilliant The Making of a Cybertariat, a modern<br>
classic in the analysis of class and gender, work and consumption,<br>
Huws turns her sharp eye to the present crisis into which the<br>
cybertariat ‘has come of age.’ Rich in theoretical and methodological<br>
insights, Labor in the Global Digital Economy carefully guides us<br>
through the world of transnational business, value chains, creative,<br>
precarious and knowledge labor, self-service consumers, and<br>
consumption workers. Challenging accepted thinking and providing<br>
enough wisdom to fill several volumes, Huws has once again<br>
demonstrated her preeminence among analysts of work and inequality in<br>
digital capitalism.<br>
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—Vincent Mosco, author, To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World<br>
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Ursula Huws is a global treasure: her essays collected here continue<br>
her several decades of scholarship analyzing the impact of<br>
technological change on women and workers. This book brings her<br>
prescient Marxist feminist theorizing to a wider audience. It is a<br>
must read for anyone who cares about what the future holds for workers<br>
in the digital era.<br>
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—Gina Neff, author, Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in<br>
Innovative Industries<br>
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As always, Huws has a treasury of insights to offer. Use this book as<br>
a manual for understanding how the alliance of capital and<br>
digitization is reshaping the landscape of labor.<br>
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—Andrew Ross, author, Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal<br>
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Ursula Huws is without peer as an analyst of life in contemporary capitalism.<br>
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—Leo Panitch, York University; editor, Socialist Register<br>
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