"This panoramic book [Cyber- Proletariat] reveals the relentless force of material destruction concealed by the sleek surfaces of digital culture."
Benjamin Noys, author of Malign Velocities.
If you peek under the hood of the global technology revolution it isn't all the joy of easy connections and killer cat videos. How does technology promote inequality and how does it affect workers? Our new book Cyber-Proletariat by Nick Dyer-Witheford explores this and more.
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Cyber-Proletariat:
Global Labour in the Digital Vortex
By Nick Dyer-Witheford
From the Coltan Mines in the Congo, to electronics factories in China, to devastated Detroit neighbourhoods, Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution through an unsparing analysis of class power and computerization.
Dyer-Witheford investigates how technology facilitates growing polarization between wealthy elites and precarious workers. He reveals the class domination behind everything from expanding online surveillance to intensifying robotization. At the same time, he looks at possibilities for information technology within radical movements.
“Cyber-Proletariat portrays the struggles of workers along the entire global capitalist commodity chain. … An epic story.” – Dorothy Kidd, Professor and Chair, Department of Media Studies, University of San Francisco
Cyber-Proletariat is available from BTL and at your local bookstore.
ISBN 978-1-77113-221-3
240 pages
$26.95 |
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