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Play to Submission
- Gaming Capitalism in a Tech Firm
Af: Tongyu Wu
Engelsk Paperback

Play to Submission

- Gaming Capitalism in a Tech Firm
Af: Tongyu Wu
Engelsk Paperback

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Games are often a fun perk of a tech company job, and employees can “play to win” in the competition to succeed. But in studying “Behemoth” (a pseudonym for a top American tech company), Tongyu Wu discovered that gaming work culture was far more insidious. Play to Submission shows how Behemoth’s games undermined and manipulated workers. They lost their work-life balance and the constant competition made labor organizing difficult. Nonetheless, many workers embraced management’s games as a chance to show off their “gamer” identities and create a workplace culture with privileged insiders and exiled outsiders, with female and migrant workers usually in the latter group. Moreover, Wu indicates this may be the future of work for high- and low-skilled and, creative workers in an environment where capitalists have heightened demands for technology and creativity. Drawing from 13 months of ethnographic work, Wu presents a persistent reality in which the company reaps the reward of surplus productivity, leaving employees themselves in a highly competitive and sometimes precarious work position.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
238
ISBN-13:
9781439922989
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1439922985
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Udg. Dato:
28 jun 2024
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
Temple University Press,U.S.
Oplagsdato:
28 jun 2024
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