Ursula Huws is Emeritus Professor of Labour and Globalisation at the University of Hertfordshire. A political economist and Academy of Social Sciences Fellow, she coined "cybertariat," pioneering research on technology's impact on work. Neil H. Spencer is Professor of Applied Statistics at the same university and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
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1. Introduction 2. The cost of time 3. The 21st century crisis of social reproduction - the great time squeeze 4. The growing digital extraction economy and what it costs users 5. Creative workers - caught in the rent vice 6. Wresting wealth from health 7. Where are we now and how did we get here? 8. Where do we go from here?
Previous praise "As always, Huws has a treasury of insights to offer." ~Andrew Ross, author, Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal "Challenging accepted thinking and providing enough wisdom to fill several volumes, Huws has once again demonstrated her preeminence among analysts of work and inequality in digital capitalism." ~Vincent Mosco, author, To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World "Ursula Huws is a global treasure." ~Gina Neff, author, Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries