Magic Wands and Monkey Brains: Is Labor Ready to Lead Society in the New Struggle Over Data?

Autor:	Biju Mathew
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Literature and Literary Theory Sociology and Political Science Political science Magic (programming) Art history
Zdroj:	South Atlantic Quarterly. 119:422-431
ISSN:	1527-8026 0038-2876
DOI:	10.1215/00382876-8177995
Popis:	Based on extensive conversations with Uber, Lyft, and Ola drivers across multiple cities in the United States and India, this article argues that gig/platform work operates through a reorganization of established labor process with data at the center of such changes. Not only is data central to a dynamic restructuring of labor processes but data as “value” moves across multiple production processes enabling a new spatiotemporal fix. Data as “value/capital” thus enters a potentially endless cycle of value creation and appropriation. This makes possible for the labor movement to move away from narrow business unionism and instead build a new politics that has at its center data as unaccounted value produced by workers.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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