Cyber-proletariat : global labour in the digital vortex /
Nick Dyer-Witheford.
- 248 pages ; 22 cm
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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Information technology--Social aspects. Electronic industry workers--Social conditions. Digital divide. Computers--Social aspects.