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[ecrea] New book: 'Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction'

Thu Sep 27 18:14:16 GMT 2018





New book in the ‘Dynamics of Virtual Work’ Series by PalgraveMacmillan

(Series editors: Rosalind Gill and Ursula Huws)

*Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction*

Edited by:

Paško Bilić, Jaka Primorac and Bjarki Valtysson

Book is available at the following address:

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319762784

_About the book:_

This book is situated in the nexus between technology, labour and politics. It focuses on contradictions as heuristic devices that uncover struggles, frictions and ambiguities of digitalization in work and labour environments. Topics include contradictions in automation, internet platforms, digital practices, creative industries, communication industries, human interaction, democratic participation and regulation. Three cross-cutting themes can be identified within the diverse chapters represented in the book. First, many authors argue that labour and economic valorisation occur outside of the traditional concept of working space and time. Second, digital technology is not fixed under capital. It is malleable and mouldable. Third, many political tensions are occurring without organized awareness or dissent. The book will, therefore, be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of sociology of work, media studies, cultural studies, gender studies, science and technology studies and Critical Theoryas well as to trade-unionists and policy makers.

_Authors in the edited volume:_

Sabine Pfeiffer, Eran Fisher, Paško Bilić, Ivo Furman, Ingrid Forsler and Julia Velkova, Valerija Barada and Jaka Primorac, Lidia Arroyo, Brian Beaton, Reinhard Anton Handler, Raul Ferrer-Conill, Aleksander Sašo Slaček Brlek, Göran Bolin, Bjarki Valtýsson, Meil, Pamela.

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_Book reviews:_

ʻWhat distinguishes this collection is its thematisation of the contradictions attending computerized and networked labour. This seems to suggest an orientation towards contestations, complications, paradoxes and ambivalences that might have been flattened out or neglected in partisan polemics. As such, it could mark a ‘maturing’ of the digital labour debates, and as such is to be welcomed.ʼ

*‒ Nick Dyer-Witheford*, University of Western Ontario, Canada

ʻIn a world dominated by social media, widespread algorithmic direction of human activities, and, imminently, sweeping robotisation, this empirically wide-ranging analysis of the labour-technology relationship could not be more timely or pressing.‚

*‒ Juliet Webster*, Work & Equality Research, UK

ʻTechnologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction provides an excellent contribution to current debates in the trend toward labour capture in digitalized environments. Bilić, Primorac and**Valtysson have gathered several extremely important case studies and theoretical interventions, bringing to light a range of worrying contradictions and volatility of labour markets where the future is yet undetermined, where artificial intelligence hints toward barbarism and extreme working conditions are hidden behind black box mythologies.ʼ

*‒ Phoebe V Moore*, Leicester University Business School, UK

_About the editors:_

*Paško Bilić*is Research Associate at the Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO) in Zagreb, Croatia

*Jaka Primorac*is Senior Research Associate at the Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), Zagreb, Croatia

*Bjarki Valtysson*is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark

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