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100	1		_aAltenried, Moritz,
245	1	4	_aThe digital factory : _bthe human labor of automation / _cMoritz Altenried.
264		1	_aChicago : _bThe University of Chicago Press, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2022.
300			_a217 pages ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index.
505	0		_aWorkers leaving the factory: introduction -- The global factory: logistics -- The factory of play: gaming -- The distributed factory: crowdwork -- The hidden factory: social media -- The platform as factory: conclusion -- The contagious factory: epilogue.
520			_a"In recent years, tech companies such as Google and Facebook have rocked the world as they have seemingly revolutionized the culture of work. We've all heard stories of lounges outfitted with ping pong tables, kitchens with kombucha on tap, and other amenities that supposedly foster creative thinking. Nothing could seem further from earlier workplaces associated with a different revolution in capitalism: factories, in which employees are required to perform highly circumscribed tasks as quickly as possible to meet quotas--for next to no pay. However, as Moritz Altenried shows in The Digital Factory, these types of workplaces are not so far from the Googleplex as we might think. While recent accounts of the transformation of labor after the demise of the factory highlight the creative, communicative, immaterial, or artistic features of contemporary labor, Altenried uncovers the factory-like conditions in which many new digital workers perform their jobs. These workers, such as video game testers, social media content moderators, and Amazon fulfillment center workers, perform highly repetitive, unskilled tasks for low and often contingent wages. Based on more than five years of research in different sites using ethnography and interviews combined with an analysis of infrastructural technologies, Altenried's book gives us a first-hand account of many new forms of digital labor that drive contemporary capitalism. He shows that though today's factories might look and feel different than they did 150 years ago, they still follow the same logics and produce the same unequal outcomes"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAssembly-line methods.
650		0	_aHigh technology industries _xEmployees.
650		0	_aIndustrial management _xTechnological innovations.
650		0	_aInternet industry _xEmployees.
650		0	_aTechnological innovations _xEconomic aspects.
650		0	_aTechnological innovations _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aUnskilled labor.
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