Journal |
Inequalities
Journal issue | Digital Platform Labour and (New) Inequalities
Research Article | Introduction
Introduction
Abstract
From a technological point of view, the digitalization of work is driven by digital discoveries and innovations in the context of increasingly complex ICTs, increasingly powerful computers and information systems, and total connectivity. However, these technologies are conceived and used for the appropriation of the value produced by living labor – today more rarefied than dead labor, but precisely for this reason more essential than ever to the production of value. The activation of an extensive range of activities and services brought about by the expansion of platforms and the vertical and horizontal integration of the entire economic-productive process into industry by means of automation, robotization, and digitalization have taken place within a context of extreme centralization, in which economic-productive process is almost totally controlled by a market logic aimed at generating profit. These are the main factors behind the production and reproduction of inequalities. With this issue, Inequalities aims to offer a critical and in-depth
tool for understanding the challenges and contradictions of digital
platform labor, stimulating further debates and studies on a fundamental issue of contemporary society.
Published May 21, 2025 | Language: en
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