Digital Work In The Planetary Market Av Mark Graham, Fabian Ferrari

<b>Understanding the embedded and disembedded, material and immaterial, territorialized and deterritorialized natures of digital work.<br> </b><br><br>Many jobs today can be done from anywhere. Digital technology and widespread internet connectivity allow almost anyone, anywhere, to connect to anyone else to communicate and exchange files, data, video, and audio. In other words, work can be deterritorialized at a planetary scale. This book examines the implications for both work and workers when work is commodified and traded beyond local labor markets. Going beyond the usual “world is flat” globalization discourse, contributors look at both the transformation of work itself and the wider systems, networks, and processes that enable digital work in a planetary market, offering both empirical and theoretical perspectives.<br> <br>The contributors—leading scholars and experts from a range of disciplines—touch on a variety of issues, including conten