The Handbook of Digital Labor

[lindseysschwartz]

• https://iamcr.org/publications/iamcr-handbook
• https://iamcr.org/publications/iamcr-handbook/handbook-of-political-economy-of-communications

[lindseysschwartz]

For Friday 04/07 - we will each bring a pitch on one of the following:

• Regulating the gig economy
• Moral injury in digital labor
• Organizing against Algorithmic Management
• Information Asymmetries in the Gig Economy
• How solidarity politics emerge in decentralized work
• Worker owned cooperatives in digital labor

Think of:

• why is this topic important to consider in the context of digital labor
• include 5 key publications
• international scope

[lindseysschwartz]

LS pitch - Organizing Against Alg Management // Solidarity Politics in Decentralized Work - https://docs.google.com/document/d/172CF2NhuXA6dO0ptLSHBWr_yI4q2OfOqxFUXGuzobco/edit

I think these are closely related so I brainstormed them together

[nniiicc]

NW - Moral Injury in Digital Labor https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h95oNAIBcnH9aF2gk16mlwysTDIIVCOpKNH984pAmdw/edit?usp=sharing

[lindseysschwartz]

For Wed 04.12 - we will each bring a 200 word draft abstract

[lindseysschwartz]

From the original email:

We'd like to call for chapter submissions to The Handbook of Digital Labor, which we are editing for the Global Handbooks in Media & Communication Research Series, an initiative under the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), to be published by Wiley.

Despite the generic title, we designed this handbook to chart rapidly changing global labor conditions, challenge boundaries between “online” vs “off-line” labor, and be a resource book that addresses key debates surrounding perennial and urgent concerns about labor questions in contemporary capitalism from a global perspective. While this handbook will build on existing work, it stresses the reconceptualization of digital labor in various contexts, connecting them across the sectors and generations, and is intended to contribute to structural analysis and intellectual praxis toward emancipatory movements.

This handbook is organized around four themes that are defined historically, technologically, and internationally in the realms of work and control, solidarity politics, pedagogy, and imaginaries:

1. Labor Under Capitalism

2. Digital Technologies, Work and Control

3. Solidarity Politics and the Working-Class Majority

4. Pedagogy, Imaginary and Emancipation

In this project, we investigate foundational labor questions as well as emerging and/or persistent patterns of labor and labor organization under new conditions such as digital platforms, automation, artificial intelligence (AI), the ”gig” economy, new divisions of labor, and alternative developments.