Humans at Work in the Digital Age explores the roots of twenty-first century cultures of digital textual labor, mapping the diverse physical and cognitive acts involved, and recovering the invisible workers and work that support digital technologies.

Introduction; Part One: Government; 1. Racialized Surveillance and the US Census: Tabulating Labor; 2. Digital Labor and Trans Histories: Resisting Assigned Gender in the Early Mainframe Era; 3. Big Data and Universal Design in The Home Market: Are There Market Researchers in Utopia?; Part Two: Industry; 4. Working in the Shadow of the Object; 5.Work, Play, and the Banality of the Digital: Boredom as Form; 6.Labor, Data, and Amateur Inventor in the Age of the Silicon Valley Boy Billionaire: Edisonade, Zuckerbergade; 7. Digitizing Labor in the Google Books Project: Gloved Fingertips and Severed Hands; Part Three: Out of the Office; 8. Reading Women's Labor in the Cybernetic Seventies: Vital Work; 9. The Economy of Online Comments; Part Four: University; 10. The Digital Labor of Blended Learning: The Reading Cities Project; 11. Using Video Games to the Test the Boundaries Between Work, Play, and Cultural Criticism: The Labor of Critique; 12. (Re)canonizing World Literature with Digital Archives and Online Magazines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China; 13. The Stakes of Digital Labor in the 21st Century Academy: The Revolution Will Not Be Turkified; 14. Scaling Black Feminisms: A Critical Discussion about the Digital Labor of Representation