For the Win

For the Win follows multiple viewpoint characters across the globe—including Mala and Yasmin from the slums of Dharavi, Leonard from California, and Matthew and Lu from China—who are connected through online multiplayer games similar to World of Warcraft.

The novel explores the practice of gold farming and examines global economics and labor issues through the lens of virtual worlds.

The characters organize the International Workers of the World Wide Web (the Webblies) to unionize and fight against exploitation, ultimately devising a plan to crash the economies of virtual worlds simultaneously.