Das Produktionsmodell des digitalen Kapitalismus

Nachtwey, Oliver; Staab, Philipp

doi:10.5771/9783845295008-285

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“…In recent years, a small but growing number of academic and journalistic work has begun using the terms ‘Neo-Taylorism’ or ‘digital Taylorism’ to describe developments in the world of labour, mostly referring to new modes of workplace surveillance, control and deskilling (e.g. Brown et al 2012; Head 2005, 2014; Nachtwey & Staab 2015). I am using the term to describe how a variety of forms and combinations of software and hardware as a whole allow for new modes of the measurement, standardisation and quantification, decomposition and surveillance of labour – often through forms of (semi-)automated management and control.…”

Section: Digital Taylorism: Labour In the Digital Factorymentioning

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The platform as factory: Crowdwork and the hidden labour behind artificial intelligence

Altenried

2020

Capital & Class

127

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This article analyses crowdwork platforms where various forms of digital labour are outsourced to digital workers across the globe. The labour of these workers is, among other things, a crucial component in the production, development and support of artificial intelligence. Crowdwork platforms are an extreme example of new forms of automated measurement, management and control of labour allowing, in turn, for the creation of hyperflexible and highly scalable workforces. Particularly on so-called microtask platforms, work is characterised by decomposition, standardisation, automated management and surveillance, as well as algorithmically organised cooperation between a great number of workers. Analysing these platforms as a paradigmatic example of an emerging digital Taylorism, the article goes on to argue that this allows the platforms to assemble a deeply heterogeneous set of workers while bypassing the need to spatially and subjectively homogenise them. These platforms create a global on-demand workforce, working in their private homes or Internet cafes. As a result, crowdwork taps into labour pools hitherto almost inaccessible to wage labour. The second part of the article investigates this tendency by looking at two sets of workers: women shouldering care responsibilities, who now can work on crowdwork platforms while performing domestic labour, as well as digital workers in the Global South. While there are clear specifics of digital crowdwork, it is also an expression of broader transformations within the world of work, concerning, for example, new forms of algorithmic management just as the return of very old forms of exploitation such as the piece wage.

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Section: Digital Taylorism: Labour In the Digital Factorymentioning

confidence: 99%

The platform as factory: Crowdwork and the hidden labour behind artificial intelligence

Altenried

2020

Capital & Class

127

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“…Außerdem bietet er sich als exemplarischer empirischer Bezugspunkt an. Das liegt vor allem daran, dass er sich als organisationale Avantgarde der Plattformökonomie und der entsprechenden Techniken algorithmischen Organisierens identifizieren lässt (Heiland/Brinkmann 2020;Nachtwey/Staab 2019). Im Zuge dieser neuen Produktionsmodelle und deren zwar lokal gebundenen, doch zugleich mobilen und digital vermittelten Arbeitsprozesse stellen sich den Plattformunternehmen neue Herausforderungen der Koordination und Kontrolle, denen sie mit neuen Techniken der automatisierten Steuerung begegnen, die in Zukunft auch für andere Arbeitskontexte von Relevanz sein können (Schaupp/Diab 2019).…”

Section: Plattformvermittelte Kurierarbeit In Deutschlandunclassified

Digitale Atomisierung oder neue Arbeitskämpfe? Widerständige Solidaritätskulturen in der plattformvermittelten Kurierarbeit

Heiland¹,

Schaupp²

2020

Momentum Quarterly

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Die plattformvermittelte Kurierarbeit ist ein Vorläufer und Testfeld für neue Formen der digitalen Arbeitskoordination und -kontrolle und damit auch für neue Formen des Arbeitskampfes. Wie der Beitrag zeigt, dienen die organisationalen und technischen Infrastrukturen dieser Plattformen sowohl zu Kontrollzwecken als auch als Mittel der widerständigen Organisierung der Kurier_innen. These des Artikels ist, dass Digitalisierung nicht allein zur Kontrolle und Atomisierung der Arbeitenden Anwendung findet, sondern von letzteren sowohl zur Schaffung von Solidaritätskulturen als auch zum aktiven Widerstand genutzt wird. Diese Argumentation gründet auf zwei mehrmonatigen ethnographischen Studien, 46 qualitativen Interviews mit verschiedenen Akteur_innen der digitalisierten Delivery-Branche und einer quantitativen Online-Befragung der Kurier_innen.

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“…Although the term ‘refeudalization’ may not seem to fit the modernity of online communication, nevertheless Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Samsung, and other regents of big data are telling examples of how the originally ‘modern’ dispersed network structure of the internet has been absorbed into the private empires of digital media power. Facebook, for example, is used by 1.4 billion people across the world but is controlled by one single individual (Lanier, 2015; Nachtwey and Staab, 2015).…”

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The refeudalization of modern capitalism

Neckel

2019

Journal of Sociology

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Jürgen Habermas once investigated the structural transformation of the modern public using the term ‘refeudalization’. He reconstructed how, in the course of the development of economic monopolies, pre-bourgeois forms of power again penetrated the public sphere. It is not only the fact that the social sciences today speak again of a crisis of the public sphere, however, that gives Habermas’ concept of ‘refeudalization’ new relevance. On the contrary, a social change is taking place in numerous areas of present-day society which, in the course of a neoliberal modernization of the economy, is once again re-creating pre-modern social forms, hierarchies and power structures. This does not take place as a relapse into past social forms, but as a paradoxical result of social transformations that generate the old as the new and thereby produce ‘neo-feudal’ patterns in the distribution of wealth, recognition and power. In this paper ‘refeudalization’ is presented as a key concept for understanding the development of modern capitalist societies today. It will be shown that the dichotomy of ‘progressive’ and ‘regressive’ forms of transformation of capitalism must be complemented by more complex models of paradoxical social change.

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Das Produktionsmodell des digitalen Kapitalismus

Cited by 26 publications

References 25 publications

The platform as factory: Crowdwork and the hidden labour behind artificial intelligence

The platform as factory: Crowdwork and the hidden labour behind artificial intelligence

Digitale Atomisierung oder neue Arbeitskämpfe? Widerständige Solidaritätskulturen in der plattformvermittelten Kurierarbeit

The refeudalization of modern capitalism

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