THE MAKING OF A CYBERTARIAT: Virtual Work in a Real World

By U. Huws, S. Sturman. 2004

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“Is your gig any good?” Analysing job quality in the Australian platform-based food-delivery sector (2019, background): “The impact of advances in information technology on the quality and nature of work, in particular, have been contentious, since these frequently result in divergent dynamic where work can be upskilled and Taylorised at the same time (Huws, 2009).”
Digital labour and development: impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods (2017, background): “Workers and the work that they performed were inexorably linked, with labour being the most place-bound of all factors of production (Hudson, 2001).”
Digital prosumption labour on social media in the context of the capitalist regime of time (2014, background): “Ursula Huws (2003) has talked of consumption work that is enabled by ICTs.”
Creative Economy and Labor Precarity: A Contested Convergence (2011, background): “First is the cybertariat, a term coined by Huws (2003) in a wide-ranging analysis of the reorganization of work through ICTs.”