"This collection examines emerging labor practices in the digital economy in the context of global disruptions from AI, the blockchain, and the internet of things"--

Acknowledgments vii1 Introduction 1Mark Graham and Fabian FerrariI Grounding Planetary Networks2 Moving beyond Shanzhai? Contradictions of Platformized Family Production in the Planetary Network of E-Commerce Labor 23Lin Zhang3 How Do Workers Survive and Thrive in the Platform Economy? Evidence from China and the Philippines 41Julie Chen and Cheryll Ruth Soriano4 "Follower Factories" in Indonesia and Beyond: Automation and Labor in a Transnational Market 59Johan Lindquist5 Moderating in Obscurity: How Indian Content Moderators Work in Global Content Moderation Value Chains 77Sana Ahmad and Martin Krzywdzinski6 Digital Livelihoods in Exile: Refugee Work and the Planetary Digital Labor Market 97Andreas HacklII Mapping Planetary Networks 7 Working the Digital Silk Road: Alibaba's Digital Free Trade Zone in Malaysia 117Brett Neilson8 The Planetary Stacking Order of Multilayered Crowd-AI Systems 137Florian A. Schmidt9 In Search of Stability at a Time of Upheaval: Digital Freelancing in Venezuela 157Hannah Johnston 10 Human Listeners and Virtual Assistants: Privacy and Labor Arbitrage in the Production of Smart Technologies 175Paola Tubaro and Antonio A. Casilli11 The Proletarianization of Data Science 191James SteinhoffIII Dissecting Planetary Networks12 Organizing in (and against) a New Cold War: The Case of 996.ICU 209JS Tan and Moira Weigel13 Planetary Potemkin AI: The Humans Hidden inside Mechanical Minds 229Jathan Sadowski14 Data, Compute, Labor 241Nick Srnicek15 Cellular Capitalism: Life and Labor at the End of the Digital Supply Chain 263Matthew HockenberryIV Reimagining Planetary Networks16 An International Governance System for Digital Work in the Planetary Market 283Janine Berg17 Righting the Wrong: Putting Workers' Data Rights Firmly on the Table 291Christina J. Colclough18 Fair Work, Feminist Design, and Women's Labor Collectives 303Payal Arora and Usha Raman19 Tilt the Scroll to Repair: Efficient Inhuman Workforce at Global Chains of Care 319Joana Moll and Jara RochaContributors 329Index 331