Sarrah Kassem, "Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization" (Bristol UP, 2023)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Importance of Labor's Product
The main idea behind the book was to really be able to dive onto the shop for level to understand the working conditions. So on the one hand, I do turn to Marx and his work of the economic and philosophical manuscripts of 1844 as a way to approach the shop floor level. But just like with alienation, you know, it's a big abstract idea. The question is how do we actually systematically study this?
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