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La ineptitud del digital academic: precariedad y salud en el mundo universitario Inadequacy of a digital academic: precariousness and health in the University FRANCESCA COIN (Università Ca' Foscari)

Nel 2013 Trebor Scholz curava per Routledge un testo titolato Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory. Il testo raccoglieva i contributi di alcuni tra gli studiosi più innovativi e eclettici del lavoro digitale e si proponeva di evidenziarne le tendenze e le implicazioni nell'epoca contemporanea. Il tema era il cambiamento del lavoro mediato dalle tecnologie di rete, nel momento in cui la tecnologia ibrida ogni ambito dell'esistenza sino a cambiare la definizione stessa di lavoro. Il dibattito evidenziava alcuni nodi irrisolti dell'economia digitale, in primo luogo i temi della rendita e del lavoro gratuito nell'ambito della rete, quali espressione della capacità di estrarre informazioni da milioni di consumatori come condizione per la difesa di posizioni strategiche nel capitalismo delle piattaforme. Il presente contributo si concentra precisamente su questi temi, sulla tendenza recente a interpretare la rete come un apparato di cattura distopico, a differenza delle speranze che le venivano associate, sottolineando le trasformazioni e il ruolo ambivalente svolto dall'automazione e della tecnologia nell'immaginario collettivo.

In the United States, farm-workers are traditionally excluded from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and from the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) which guarantee basic rights to workers, including the right to organize and engage in collective bargaining. In a sense, farm-workers are confined to a secondary market characterized by substandard wages and labor conditions. This study explores how migrant farm-workers in North Carolina have responded to their labor conditions with a campaign that culminated in the achievement of the first labor contract for guest-workers in US history. Based on ethnographic research, it reflects upon the role of grassroots organizing in challenging a culture of racism that has remained dangerously alive in many parts of our society.

In the United States, farm-workers are traditionally excluded from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and from the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) which guarantee basic rights to workers, including the right to organize and engage in collective bargaining. In a sense, farm-workers are confined to a secondary market characterized by substandard wages and labor conditions. This study explores how migrant farm-workers in North Carolina have responded to their labor conditions with a campaign that culminated in the achievement of the first labor contract for guest-workers in US history. Based on ethnographic research, it reflects upon the role of grassroots organizing in challenging a culture of racism that has remained dangerously alive in many parts of our society.