Technoprecarious

An analysis that traces the role of digital technology in multiplying precarity. Technoprecarious advances a new analytic for tracing how precarity unfolds across disparate geographical sites and cultural practices in the digital age. Digital technologies--whether apps like Uber built on flexible la...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Precarity Lab (author)
Autor Corporativo: Precarity Lab, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Goldsmiths Press [2020]
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Sumario:An analysis that traces the role of digital technology in multiplying precarity. Technoprecarious advances a new analytic for tracing how precarity unfolds across disparate geographical sites and cultural practices in the digital age. Digital technologies--whether apps like Uber built on flexible labor or platforms like Airbnb that shift accountability to users--have assisted in consolidating the wealth and influence of a small number of players. These platforms have also furthered increasingly insecure conditions of work and life for racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities, women, indigenous people, migrants, and peoples in the global south. At the same time, precarity has become increasingly generalized, expanding to include even the creative class and digital producers themselves.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781912685721