The Digital Continent investigates what the impact of the growth of digital work in Africa means for workers. The volume draws on a year-long field study conducted in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Uganda to provide one of the first empirical studies on the topic.
The Digital Continent investigates what the impact of the growth of digital work in Africa means for workers. The volume draws on a year-long field study conducted in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Uganda to provide one of the first empirical studies on the topic.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mohammad Amir Anwar is a Lecturer in African Studies and International Development at the University of Edinburgh. His work deals with the developmental impacts of globalization, looking behind the scenes at human labour in digital capitalism, the future of work and workers, the global gig economy, and labour movements in Africa. He is also a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and the School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg. Mark Graham is Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute, a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, a Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, a Research Affiliate in the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment, a Research Associate at the Centre for Information Technology and National Development in Africa at the University of Cape Town, and a Visiting Researcher at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung.
Inhaltsangabe
* Prologue: Making Visible the Invisible * 1: Hopes and Realities of the Digital * 2: Africa's New Digital Connectivity and Economic Change * 3: Economic Geographies of Digital Work in Africa * 4: Human Labour in the World of Digital Work * 5: Digital Taylorism: Freedom, Flexibility, Precarity, and Vulnerability * 6: Resilience, Reworking, and Resistance: Hidden Transcripts of the Gig Economy * 7: Futures of Work: Making a Fairer World for Labour * Appendix: Fieldwork Overview
* Prologue: Making Visible the Invisible * 1: Hopes and Realities of the Digital * 2: Africa's New Digital Connectivity and Economic Change * 3: Economic Geographies of Digital Work in Africa * 4: Human Labour in the World of Digital Work * 5: Digital Taylorism: Freedom, Flexibility, Precarity, and Vulnerability * 6: Resilience, Reworking, and Resistance: Hidden Transcripts of the Gig Economy * 7: Futures of Work: Making a Fairer World for Labour * Appendix: Fieldwork Overview
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