Cyber-Proletariat

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Publication Year:
2015

ISBN-13: 9781771132220

<p> The utopian promise of the internet, much talked about even a few years ago, has given way to brutal realities: coltan mines in the Congo, electronics factories in China, devastated neighborhoods in Detroit. <em>Cyber-Proletariat</em> shows us the dark-side of the information revolution through an unsparing analysis of class power and computerization. </p> <p> Dyer-Witheford investigates how technology facilitates growing polarization between wealthy elites and precarious workers. He reveals the class domination behind everything from expanding online surveillance to intensifying robotization. At the same time, he looks at possibilities for information technology within radical movements. </p>