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Marx Versus Big Tech: Alienated Labour in the Digital Age

by Stéphanie Roza
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781041215486
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
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  • Pages: 156
  • Original Price: GBP 155.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 400 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / General

This book asks whether Marx's concepts can still be useful to those seeking emancipation in the time of platform capitalism. Offering a pointed discussion of what emancipation in the workplace would mean, it explores the potential of Humanist Marxism to address this possibility.

Humanist Marxism, as advocated by Georg Luk�cs and Henri Lefebvre, among others, provides invaluable tools for analysing the transformations and shortcomings of contemporary society. It puts forward the hypothesis that a universal human essence evolves over time thanks to the efforts of individuals in their work, gradually humanising the world and increasing the wealth and power of societies. However, with this progress comes a "dark side" caused by advances in technology and digital platforms, bringing new forms of alienation and dramatically altering our relationships with work and others. Drawing on analysis of platforms such as Uber and positing that labour plays a key role in human bondage or emancipation, the book shows how platformisation is a new strategy of exploitation.

Drawing on the contributions and debates within Humanist Marxism, this book offers a clear and philosophically rich reading of our world that can provide a serious basis for a theory of liberation relevant to our times. It will be vital reading for researchers and post-graduate students with interests in Marxism, social and political thought, alternatives to capitalism and political philosophy.

Stéphanie Roza is a researcher at the CNRS's SND laboratory (Sorbonne University). Initially, her research focused on the "collectivist" utopias of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, from Morelly to Babeuf. She then turned her attention to the legacy of 18th-century France in the communist, socialist, and anarchist left-wing movements of the last two centuries. Her recent publications include: La gauche contre les Lumières? (2020), Lumières de la gauche (2022), Le Marxisme est un humanisme (2024) and Utopia: From the Novel to Revolution (2025).

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