John Michael Roberts

Digital, Class, Work

Before and During Covid-19

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores class struggles in different digital workplaces both before and during COVID-19 This book provides a systematic account of the impact of COVID-19 on the digital labour process by situating its analysis within the broader and global perspective of neoliberalism and financialisation. It investigates how COVID-19 has both changed and strengthened neoliberal and financialised class relations in the digital workplace. By drawing on Marxist theory and numerous empirical studies, the book examines these areas both before and during COVID-19 by focusing on five distinctive digital labour and work processes: global 'productive' digital work processes in sectors like manufacturing; 'unproductive' digital work in sectors like retail and finance; creative industries; gig and platform work; and digital work in the state and public sector. It also maps out degrees of class struggle in and around exploitation, oppression and emancipatory potential in the digital workplace before and during the pandemic. John Michael Roberts is Professor of Sociology and Communications at Brunel University Lonodon

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781399502931
• ISBN-10: 139950293X
• Artikelnr.: 62799960

Autorenporträt

John Michael Roberts is Professor of Sociology and Communications at Brunel University. His previous books include, Contemporary Left-Wing Activism, vols 1 and 2 (edited with J. Ibrahim, Routledge 2019), New Media and Public Activism (Policy Press 2014) and Digital Publics: Cultural Political Economy, Financialisation, and Organisational Politics (Routledge 2014).