
AbstractThe digital labour debate has produced manifold insights into new forms of work emerging within digital capitalism. So far, though, most research has focused on highly precarious labourers, neglecting the growing ranks of affluent ‘tech workers’. I argue that this analytical oversight can be attributed to a narrow conceptualisation of digital labour. Thus, this article first proposes a broadening of the digital labour concept to encompass all work entangled with the digital economy. In a second step, I demonstrate the heuristic surplus of this theoretical broadening through a discussion of the empirical literature on tech workers. By bringing tech workers into the debate, I point to the cultural, technological and organisational relations between high and low‐paid digital labourers. Pursuing twin‐aims, the article combines a theoretical reconsideration of digital labour with an analytical discussion of the literature on tech workers to provide a more relational account of work and class in digital capitalism.
crowd work, 3505 Human Resources and Industrial Relations, class, ARCHITECTURE, INFORMATION-SYSTEMS, gig work, WOMEN, platform capitalism, DIFFERENCE, FRAMEWORK, GIG ECONOMY, PLATFORMS, digital capitalism, 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, TIME, 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth, knowledge work, digital labour, GENDER, tech work, professions, MIDDLE
crowd work, 3505 Human Resources and Industrial Relations, class, ARCHITECTURE, INFORMATION-SYSTEMS, gig work, WOMEN, platform capitalism, DIFFERENCE, FRAMEWORK, GIG ECONOMY, PLATFORMS, digital capitalism, 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, TIME, 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth, knowledge work, digital labour, GENDER, tech work, professions, MIDDLE
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