{"product_id":"the-digital-factory-moritz-altenried-9780226815480","title":"The Digital Factory: The Human Labor of Automation","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Digital Factory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e reveals the hidden human labor that supports today's digital capitalism.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The workers of today's digital factory include those in Amazon warehouses, delivery drivers, Chinese gaming workers, Filipino content moderators, and rural American search engine optimizers. Repetitive yet stressful, boring yet often emotionally demanding, these jobs require little formal qualification, but can demand a large degree of skills and knowledge. This work is often hidden behind the supposed magic of algorithms and thought to be automated, but it is in fact highly dependent on human labor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The workers of today's digital factory are not as far removed from a typical auto assembly line as we might think. Moritz Altenried takes us inside today's digital factories, showing that they take very different forms, including gig economy platforms, video games, and Amazon warehouses. As Altenried shows, these digital factories often share surprising similarities with factories from the industrial age. As globalized capitalism and digital technology continue to transform labor around the world, Altenried offers a timely and poignant exploration of how these changes are restructuring the social division of labor and its geographies as well as the stratifications and lines of struggle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Moritz Altenried\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022681548X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226815480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2023","brand":"Moritz Altenried","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048442654975,"sku":"9780226815480","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_207d3d3d-95d6-4262-ac28-ea8585d646cd.jpg?v=1684995790","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-digital-factory-moritz-altenried-9780226815480","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}