Category: Surplus-Value Extraction
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Part 13: The Division of Information, Data, and Privacy: Exploring Digital Manufacture and the Exploitation of Digital Labor
Karl Marx’s analysis of the division of labor and the process of manufacture provides profound insights into the exploitative nature of capitalist production. The division of labor, as he observed, results in the separation of mental and manual labor, leading to the creation of distinct roles and hierarchies within the workforce. In this system, the…