[ecrea] Journal of Peer Production #10: "Peer production and work"

We are delighted to announce the release of Journal of Peer Production 
#10: "Peer production and work"

Issue editors: Mathieu O’Neil (University of Canberra) and Stefano 
Zacchiroli (University Paris Diderot and Inria)

http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-10-peer-production-and-work/

The increasing production of value by entities which are not compensated 
for their labour means the ranks of unemployed people keep growing. We 
often confuse being ‘unemployed’ with being ‘unworked’, but what it 
really means is that we are ‘unwaged’. There is a lot of work to be 
done, but for that to happen it needs to be separated from employment. 
Where does peer production fit in? The passionate labour and abjuration 
of exclusive property rights over the goods they produce of participants 
in peer projects occur at the expense of less fortunate others, who do 
not have the disposable income, cultural capital, or family support to 
engage in unpaid labour.
On the other hand, we should avoid an overly ‘capitalocentric’ view of 
the economy. New forms of solidarity can be imagined. An increasingly 
large free public goods and services sector could well cohabit in a 
plural economy with employment in cooperatives, paid independent work, 
and the wage-earning of the commercial sector. The peer-reviewed 
articles in this tenth issue of the Journal of Peer Production explore 
such emerging assemblages through case studies of an online 
encyclopedia, a herbarium, a scientific project, mathematical 
schoolbooks, and ‘maker’ activities. The Editorial Section addresses the 
interplay of capital and commons in firms and peer projects. It argues 
that it is time for the Journal of Peer Production to move beyond an 
exclusive focus on DIY institutions, in order to research and develop 
the culture and regulations and which can grow the commons.

EDITORIAL SECTION

Making Lovework: Editorial Notes
Mathieu O’Neil, Stefano Zacchiroli

 From the Commons to Capital: Red Hat, Inc. and the Business of Free 
Software
Benjamin J. Birkinbine

Preliminary Report on the Influence of Capital in an Ethical-Modular 
Project: Quantitative data from the Debian Survey
Mathieu O’Neil, Stefano Zacchiroli, Molly de Blanc, Mahin Raissi

Now, the Commons
Journal of Peer Production
PEER REVIEWED PAPERS

Producing a Knowledge Commons: Tensions Between Paid Work and Peer 
Production in a Public Institution
Lorna Heaton, Patricia Dias da Silva

Crowdsourcing Citizen Science: Exploring the Tensions Between Paid 
Professionals and Users
Jamie Woodcock, Anita Greenhill, Kate Holmes, Gary Graham, Joe Cox, Eun 
Young Oh, Karen Masters

Makers as a New Work Condition Between Self-employment and Community 
Peer-production. Insights from a survey on Makers in Italy.
Massimo Menichinelli, Massimo Bianchini, Alessandra Carosi, Stefano Maffei

Communal Work and Professional Involvement: the Balance of Open Source 
Projects
Clement Bert-Erboul

A Critical Political Economic Framework for Peer Production’s Relation 
to Capitalism
Arwid Lund [html]
VARIA

Common sense: An Examination of Three Los Angeles Community WiFi 
Projects that Privileged Public Funding over Commons-based 
Infrastructure Management
Gwen Shaffer

“Think Global, Print Local”: A Case study of a Commons-based Publishing 
and Distribution Model
Vasilis Kostakis, Stacco Troncoso, Ann Marie Utratel


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