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Compare the social organisation of work in industrial capitalism and platform capitalism.

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  • Works and Economic Life

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Industrial capitalism organised work around the factory: concentrated wage labour under direct supervision, which Karl Marx (Capital, Vol. I, 1867) analysed as the real subsumption of labour under capital. Nick Srnicek (Platform Capitalism, 2016) describes a newer form in which digital intermediaries extract data and coordinate dispersed workers without formally employing them. Both extract surplus,…

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