[D66] Cyber-Proletariat: GLOBAL LABOUR IN THE DIGITAL VORTEX

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  Cyber-Proletariat


    GLOBAL LABOUR IN THE DIGITAL VORTEX

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NICK DYER-WITHEFORD
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240 pages | 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 | © 2015
The utopian promise of the internet, much talked about even a few years
ago, has given way to the information highway’s brutal realities: coltan
mines in the Congo, electronics factories in China, devastated
neighborhoods in Detroit. In /Cyber-Proletariat/, Nick Dyer-Witheford
shows the dark side of the information revolut
ion through an unsparing analysis of class power and computerization. He
reveals how technology facilitates growing polarization between wealthy
elites and precarious workers and how class dominates everything from
expanding online surveillance to intensifying robotization. At the same
time he looks at possibilities for information technology within radical
movements, casting contemporary economic and social struggles in the
blue glow of the computer screen.
/Cyber-Proletariat/ brings Marxist analysis to bear on a range of modern
informational technologies. The result is a book indispensable to social
theorists and hacktivists alike and essential reading for anyone who
wants to understand how Silicon Valley shapes the way we live today.Close

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*Benjamin Noys, University of Chichester and author of Malign Velocities*
“Nick Dyer-Witheford’s /Cyber-Proletariat/ tracks the  eddies and flows
of the perfect storm that is contemporary capitalism. This panoramic
work reveals the relentless force of material destruction and brutal
violence concealed by the sleek surfaces of digital culture. Not without
hope, Dyer-Witheford offers a clear-eyed reflection on the conditions
facing the global proletariat in its struggle to win a better world.”
*Dorothy Kidd, University of San Francisco*
“In /Cyber-Proletariat/, Dyer-Witheford teases out the tensions between
new communization and autonomist Marxist theories to portray the
struggles of workers along the entire global capitalist commodity chain.
An epic story, it is two parts the unending battle against capitalist
cyber-vampires, and one part the Wizard of Oz- like alliance of ‘all who
care for one another and for the world.’”
*George Caffentzis, University of Southern Maine*
“Nick Dyer-Witheford follows up his now-classic Cyber-Marx with a
synoptic view of the relationship between the poles of the contemporary
global proletariat from the Turkish miners killed in a shaft collapse to
the highly paid "hackers" in Silicon Valley./Cyber-Proletariat/ is rich
in empirical detail and has a wide theoretical horizon. You will find in
these pages workers in Foxconn contemplating suicide cheek-by-jowl with
the Gezi Park demonstrators protesting the enclosure of a public park to
build a shopping mall. It is written with Dyer-Witherford's well-known
eloquence and passion. Cyber-proletarians should thank him for writing
it and get it.”

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