Du nouveau sur le front du digital labor
Fuchs publie un article qui cite Scholz... non pas Trebor Scholz mais Roswitha Scholz !
▻http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0896920517691108
Une critique du travail (et non pas du point de vue du travail) va-t-elle commencer à émerger dans ce domaine de recherche ? La prochaine étape peut-elle être une critique du numérique qui ne s’en tienne pas à la seule dénonciation des phénomènes empiriques ?
This article asks: How can understanding the relationship of exploitation and oppression inform the study of digital labour and digital capitalism? It combines the analysis of capitalism, patriarchy, slavery, and racism in order to analyse digital labour. The approach taken also engages with a generalization of David Roediger’s wages of whiteness approach, Marxist feminism, Angela Davis’s Marxist black feminism, Rosa Luxemburg, Kylie Jarrett’s concept of the digital housewife, Jack Qiu’s notion of iSlavery, Eileen Meehan’s concept of the gendered audience commodity, and Carter Wilson and Audrey Smedley’s historical analyses of racism and class. The article presents a typology of differences and commonalities between wage-labour, slave-labour, reproductive labour, and Facebook labour. It shows that the digital data commodity is both gendered and racialized. It analyses how class, patriarchy, slavery, and racism overgrasp into each other in the realm of digital capitalism. It also introduces the notions of the organic composition of labour and the rate of reproductive labour and shows, based on example data, how to calculate these ratios that provide insights into the reality of unpaid labour in capitalism.
#digital_labor #paywall non ? L’article complet est-il magiquement trouvable quelque part ?
Des rumeurs disent qu’il aurait été vu ici : ▻http://ktche.ouvaton.org/Fuchs.pdf
Mais ce sont possiblement des fake news alimentés par des micro-tacherons des plateformes numériques...
Par ailleurs, les conditions d’usage (cliquer ici pour les accepter) indiquent que la lecture de Fuchs peut être éprouvante.
Ah ben ça alors, quel hasard, merci la rumeur…
The Finance Curse: Britain and the World Economy
▻http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1369148115612793
States failing to harness natural resources for development led to the concept of the Resource Curse. In many countries, resource dependence generated slower growth, crowding out, reduced economic diversity, lost entrepreneurialism, unemployment, economic instability, inequality, conflict, rent-seeking and corruption. The #Finance Curse produces similar effects, often for similar reasons. Beyond a point, a growing financial sector can do more harm than good. Unlike the Resource Curse, these harms transcend borders. The concept of a Finance Curse starkly illuminates the condition of Britain’s political economy and the character of its relations with the rest of the world.
Neanderthals Were People, Too - by Jon Mooalem (The New York Times)
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/magazine/neanderthals-were-people-too.html
One of the earliest authorities on Neanderthals was a Frenchman named Marcellin Boule. A lot of what he said was wrong.
In 1911, Boule began publishing his analysis of the first nearly complete Neanderthal skeleton ever discovered, which he named Old Man of La Chapelle, after the limestone cave where it was found. Laboring to reconstruct the Old Man’s anatomy, he deduced that its head must have been slouched forward, its spine hunched and its toes spread like an ape’s. Then, having reassembled the Neanderthal this way, Boule insulted it. This “brutish” and “clumsy” posture, he wrote, clearly indicated a lack of morals and a lifestyle dominated by “functions of a purely vegetative or bestial kind.” A colleague of Boule’s went further, claiming that Neanderthals usually walked on all fours and never laughed: “Man-ape had no smile.” Boule was part of a movement trying to reconcile natural selection with religion; by portraying Neanderthals as closer to animals than to us, he could protect the ideal of a separate, immaculate human lineage. When he consulted with an artist to make a rendering of the Neanderthal, it came out looking like a furry, mean gorilla.
Marianne Sommer montre comment Marcellin Boule et les journaux ont fait monter la sauce à l’époque, structurant ainsi pour des dizaines d’années la perception de Neanderthal comme une brute épaisse, un sous-homme : “l’homme-singe n’a pas le sourire”
▻http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0306312706054527