How Algorithms are Reshaping the Exploitation of Labour-power:Insights into the Process of Labour Invisibilization in the Platform Economy
According to Marx,productive consumption of labour-power in the labour process is the main source of value creation.Capitalists seek to obscure and secure workers'contribution to the production pro-cess,while workers strive to have their contribution fully recognized.The confrontation between capitalists and workers is thus based on the appropriation and exploitation of unpaid labour time.In contemporary capitalism,this process of invisibilisation remains a relevant mode of surplus value capture,especially in the platform economy,characterised by remote but ubiquitous control through algorithms.Rediscovering this mode of sur-plus value capture and its manifestation in platform labour will contribute to a new understanding of the rela-tionship between work process transformation and surplus value creation.
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