The Handbook of Digital Labor

Name: The Handbook of Digital Labor
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ISBN: 9781119981800

by Jack Linchuan Qiu, Shinjoung Yeo, Richard Maxwell

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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Print ISBN	9781119981800
eText ISBN	9781119981824
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Publishing Year	2025
Edition	1st Edition
Language	English
Pages	464

The Handbook of Digital Labor, 1st Edition, provides a comprehensive investigation into how technology reshapes employment, global economics, and worker organization. Designed for advanced undergraduate students, graduate scholars, junior faculty, labor organizers, policymakers, and industry professionals, this volume establishes a systematic approach to studying contemporary labor conditions.

The thematic coverage encompasses workplace surveillance, productivity monitoring, artificial intelligence production, and global data work. The chapters examine platform labor, including ride-hailing, while addressing environmental exploitation, trade union organizing, and working-class resistance. Throughout these topics, the text highlights equitable and sustainable alternatives to current industrial models.

As an entry in the Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research series co-published by Wiley and IAMCR, this reference work supports advanced study across media studies, labor sociology, and public policy. It bridges theoretical analysis with practical insights into modern employment relations.

Chapter 1: The Laboring of Labor Communication Research
Chapter 2: The Party's Over: Organizing Across the Contracting Divide at Google
Chapter 3: Organizing the Unorganized: The Case of Korean Truck Drivers—An Interview with Wol-san Liem
Chapter 4: "The Coal Machine/What Will a Coal Miner Do?" Automation, Financialization, and Union Mobilization in Underground US Coal Mining
Chapter 5: Pathways to Worker Empowerment in the Digital Age: A Comparative Analysis of Unions and Co-operatives
Chapter 6: Digital Capitalism in the 2020s: Dividing the World
Chapter 7: Labor and Surveillance: The Productivity of Being Watched
Chapter 8: "We Don't Need Unions at Amazon.com": Historical Context and the Struggle to Organize an E-Commerce Giant
Chapter 9: From "Barefoot Electrician" to "Electronic Supervisor": Technology and Labor Politics in the Information Industry of China
Chapter 10: Cybersyn: Into Alternative Digital Futures, Through a Chilean Rear-view Mirror
Chapter 11: Regional Disadvantage: The Ongoing Exodus from Silicon Valley
Chapter 12: Global Inequalities in the Production of Artificial Intelligence: A Four-Country Study on Data Work
Chapter 13: Platform-mediated Informal Employment, the State, and Labor Politics in China
Chapter 14: "There is No Future in this Business." Further Platformization of Ride-hailing Service in China and the State's Intervening Policies under the COVID-19 Outbreak
Chapter 15: "It's Not A Job That You Can Take Off": Freedom and Precarity of Sex Workers in the Platform Economy
Chapter 16: "Calibrated Servitude": Agency, Relational Practice, and Postcolonial Dynamics in Cloudwork
Chapter 17: The Digital Hustle: Precarity Beyond Platforms
Chapter 18: Control and Flexibility in the Age of Globalized Production
Chapter 19: Digital Labor and Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective
Chapter 20: Digital Labor and the Domestic Sphere
Chapter 21: Labor and Value
Chapter 22: Circuits of Labor: A Holistic Model for the Making and Unmaking of Class Through the iPhone