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conspicuous production isn’t about meeting one’s material needs. It’s about the public display of productivity as a symbol of class power.

Tarnoff: The new status symbol: it’s not what you spend – it’s how hard you work. The Guardian 4/24/17

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/24/new-status-symbol-hard-work-spending-ceos

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The Digital Revolution is set to dramatically change our lives in the coming years and policy- and decision-makers need to come to terms with what these epochal transformations mean and how they can be shaped so the majority of people benefit and the dangers are mdoerated. On this page, we will collect Social Europe media on the wider subject in general and on the future of work in particular – in the framework of a project we run together with the Hans Böckler Stiftung.

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“Thus "work", for example, is understood in a very narrow and instrumental way. Where only transactions for money are recognised as belonging to "the economy", the vast amount of unpaid labour – as conducted for instance in families and local areas – goes uncounted and unvalued. We need to question that familiar categorisation of the economy as a space into which people enter in order to reluctantly undertake unwelcome and unpleasing "work", in return for material rewards which they can use for consuming.“

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Historical Context and Social Divisions

The Experience of Work

The Organization of Work

Nonstandard Work and Employment

Work and Life beyond Employment

Globalization and the Future of Work.

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from the archives, UC Davis Soc prof Vicki Smith: Circular Trap:Women and Part-Time Work, Berkeley J of Soc.

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one of an interesting set of articles from "The Work Issue" of NYTMag

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“Any given transaction may take only a few minutes or even seconds, but multiplied across a whole economy, having everybody book their own tickets, submit tax returns, upload articles, order groceries, update their profiles, and log their own working hours saves millions of dollars in wages not paid — and adds cumulatively to the cyber-bureaucratic load of unpaid “consumption work” required for everyday survival.“

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The Unwanted Labour of Social Media: Women of Colour Call out Culture As Venture Community Management

Lisa Nakamura

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Abstract

 Social media platforms generate huge profits from free user data. Twitter and other social media sites benefit additionally from the labour of volunteer community managers whose efforts to moderate misogyny and sexism online are often unwanted, punished, and viewed as censorship, uncivil behaviour, or themselves forms of sexism. Hashtag movements like #ThisTweetCalledMyBack reveal a growing labour consciousness on the part of these volunteers and an awareness of their role as an emergent formation within this ‘new economy’.

Keywords

digital labour, free labour, misogyny, reproductive labour

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TOC: Introduction: Hacked in the USA: Prosumption and Digital Labour; Olivier Frayssé and Mathieu O'Neil 1. Setting the Standards: the USA and Capitalism in the Digital Age; Ursula Huws 2. How the US Counterculture Redefined Work for the Age of the Internet; Olivier Frayssé 3. The Costs of Paying, or Three Histories of Swiping; Michael Palm 4: Work and Prosumerism: Collaborative Consumption in the United States; Marie-Christine Pauwels 5. The Moral Technical Imaginaries of Internet Convergence in an American Television Network; Adam Fish 6. Migration Machine: Marketing Mexico in the Age of ICTs; Eve Bantman-Masum 7. The Dialectics of Prosumption in the Digital Age; Eran Fisher 8. 'Whistle While You Work.' Work, Emotion, and Contests of Authority at the Happiest Place on Earth; Thibaut Clément 9. The Coming of Augmented Property: A Constructivist Lesson for the Critics of Intellectual Property; Johan Söderberg 10. Wikipedians on Wage Labour within Peer Production; Arwid Lund Afterword: Towards Cloud Labour; Vincent Mosco

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“Why must we all work long hours to earn the right to live? Why must only the wealthy have a access to leisure, aesthetic pleasure, self-actualization…? Everyone seems to have an answer, according to their political or theological bent. ‘

Bertrand Russell & Buckminster Fuller on Why We Should Work Less, and Live & Learn More)