Digital Labour and the Use-value of Human Work. On the Importance of Labouring Capacity for Understanding Digital Capitalism

TripleC

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 599-619

  Pfeiffer, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

and materiality; corporeality; dialectic; digital work; labouring capacity; subjectifying work action

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EID: 85154022100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1726670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v12i2.545     Document Type: Article

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