Labor in Informational Capitalism and on the Internet

  • Authors:

  • Christian Fuchs

  • Affiliations:

  • Unified Theory of Information Research Group, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

  • Venue:
  • The Information Society
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This article argues that in informational capitalism, the notion of class should not be confined to capital as one class and wage labor as the other class. The notion of class needs to be expanded to include everybody who creates and recreates spaces of common experience, such as user-generated content on the Internet, through their practices. These spaces and experiences are appropriated and thereby expropriated and exploited by capital to accumulate capital. The rise of informational capitalism requires us to rethink the notion of class and to relate the class concept to knowledge labor.