Cyber-proletariat : global labour in the digital vortex / Nick Dyer-Witheford.
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TextPublisher: London : PlutoPress, 2015Description: 248 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780745334035 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Information technology -- Social aspects | Electronic industry workers -- Social conditions | Digital divide | Computers -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 303.4'833 Summary: The utopian promise of the internet, much talked about even a few years ago, has given way to the information highway's brutal realities: coltan mines in the Congo, electronics factories in China, devastated neighbourhoods in Detroit. In 'Cyber-Proletariat', Nick Dyer-Witheford shows the dark side of the information revolution through an unsparing analysis of class power and computerization.
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Originally published: Toronto: Between the Lines.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The utopian promise of the internet, much talked about even a few years ago, has given way to the information highway's brutal realities: coltan mines in the Congo, electronics factories in China, devastated neighbourhoods in Detroit. In 'Cyber-Proletariat', Nick Dyer-Witheford shows the dark side of the information revolution through an unsparing analysis of class power and computerization.
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