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The Making of a Cybertariat
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Code: PB0882
Price: $18.95
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Huws, Ursula
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ISBN: 1-58367-088-2 (pbk)
208 pages
The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World by Ursula Huws, Foreword by Colin Leys
The workplace has been changed in recent decades by the rise of digital technologies. Parts of a single labor process can be moved around the world, with implications not only for individual workplaces or firms, but for the working class as a whole. Computer operators in India process medical transcriptions for doctors in the United States at one-eighth of what U.S. computer operators would earn, and at four times the salary of an Indian schoolteacher. Within advanced capitalist countries, the workplace has been made more "flexible" through cellphones, e-mail, freelancing, and outsourcing.
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