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GLOBAL NETWORKS-A JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL AFFAIRS
卷 23, 期 4, 页码 732-754出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12407
关键词
ICT; global commodity; value chains; global production networks; governance; survey
This paper demonstrates that unpaid labor is a systemic mechanism of accumulation in digital value networks, and workers in the global South perform more unpaid labor than counterparts in the global North. These findings have important implications for understanding the changing international division of labor and platform capitalism.
Production in knowledge and data-intensive industries is powered by work that can, in theory, be done from anywhere, via cloudwork platforms. Cloudwork platforms govern data value chains in distinct ways to concentrate power and extract value at the global scale. We argue that unpaid labour is a systemic mechanism of accumulation in these digital value networks. In this paper we demonstrate how it is tied to platform business models and facilitated by elements of platform governance including monopsony power, a high degree of spatial flexibility in sourcing labour, regulatory unaccountability and digital enclosure. We draw on a survey of 699 workers on 14 platforms in 74 countries to show that unpaid labour is an engine of South-North value extraction, and workers in the global South perform more unpaid labour than counterparts in the global North. Our findings have important ramifications our understanding of the changing international division of labour and platform capitalism.
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