Taking Its Toll
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How Big Tech Is Squeezing Our Livelihoods
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Description
The big-picture economics title on why everything now costs more than its price tag.
You no longer own your car, your software, your music, or your films–you rent them. Big Tech has quietly rebuilt the entire economy so that you keep paying forever. Meanwhile, you’re paying in time: scanning your own shopping, booking your own appointments, doing unpaid labor companies once did for you. This eye-opening expose reveals the hidden architecture of the subscription economy and calculates the true cost of what economists call ‘usurocratic capitalism’–a system designed to extract endless rent from both your wallet and your time.
Essential reading for anyone feeling the squeeze of modern consumer life.
Reviews
"As always, Huws has a treasury of insights to offer. Use this book as a manual for understanding how the alliance of capital and digitization is reshaping the landscape of labor." Andrew Ross, author, Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal
"Following on her brilliant The Making of a Cybertariat, a modern classic in the analysis of class and gender, work and consumption, Huws turns her sharp eye to the present crisis into which the cybertariat has come of age. Rich in theoretical and methodological insights... Huws has once again demonstrated her preeminence among analysts of work and inequality in digital capitalism." Vincent Mosco, author, To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World
"Ursula Huws is a global treasure: her essays collected here continue her several decades of scholarship analyzing the impact of technological change on women and workers. This book brings her prescient Marxist feminist theorizing to a wider audience. It is a must read for anyone who cares about what the future holds for workers in the digital era." Gina Neff, author, Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries
