Play to Submission
Autor Tongyu Wuen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 iun 2024
Play to Submission shows how Behemoth’s games undermined and manipulated workers. They lost their work-life balance and the constant competition made labor organizing difficult. Nonetheless, many workers embraced management’s games as a chance to show off their “gamer” identities and create a workplace culture with privileged insiders and exiled outsiders, with female and migrant workers usually in the latter group. Moreover, Wu indicates this may be the future of work for high- and low-skilled and, creative workers in an environment where capitalists have heightened demands for technology and creativity.
Drawing from 13 months of ethnographic work, Wu presents a persistent reality in which the company reaps the reward of surplus productivity, leaving employees themselves in a highly competitive and sometimes precarious work position.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781439922989
ISBN-10: 1439922985
Pagini: 238
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
ISBN-10: 1439922985
Pagini: 238
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Recenzii
"Through a series of vivid storytelling and theoretical interventions, Wu explores how gaming culture—especially the sociality of competitive online games—not only shapes worker interactions but also indirectly influences labor control and labor power extraction through various 'work games'.... Beyond its value as a robust and captivating ethnography, Play to Submission offers a historical lens on the accumulation and iteration of informational capitalism."—Social Forces
"Play to Submission's focus on a field of games extends traditional labor game research to new contexts and provides a useful perspective for investigating labor control in creative, immaterial industries.... Wu is attentive to workers’ forms of resistance throughout her book.... [Play to Submission] will therefore be important reading for scholars in game production studies and in broader studies of creative and immaterial labor."—Work and Occupations
“The book convincingly argues that through game-focused discourses...workers find agency that leads to overlooking exploitation and even drives them to self-surveillance and self-management.... Wu’s incisive study of the totalizing effect of these dozens of different games stands as one of the chief contributions of this project. There is much to be learned here about the people and the companies creating the platforms we now spend so much of our lives within.”—American Journal of Sociology
"[T]his is a remarkable book for those who want to better understand what happens at the core of the Behemoths of Big Tech. It should be of interest not only to researchers in labor studies but to anyone interested in delving into how the most socially prized products today are produced. Play to Submission offers robust fieldwork, an engaging and enjoyable narrative, and a fascinating analysis and conceptualization of Tongyu Wu’s findings."—ILR Review
“In her fascinating book, Play to Submission, Tongyu Wu takes the theory and practice of the organization of games in the creative workplace to an entirely new level. She shows how the increasingly popular ‘gamification’ of work can have very different implications for manager-worker relations, relations among workers themselves, and worker commitment. A must-read for anyone interested in the future of work.”—Michael Burawoy, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Public Sociology: Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia
“Rooted in rich ethnographic research, Play to Submission is an insightful critical investigation of the gamification of the labor process of software engineers at a corporate center of digital capitalism. Beyond detailing how tech work is comprehensively gamified in a bid to mobilize engineers’ commitment, cooperation, and competition, Wu’s study of the gamified workplace shows how capacities developed in consumption—video game play—are put to work as a labor-control strategy in production.”—Greig de Peuter, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, and coauthor of Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games
"Play to Submission's focus on a field of games extends traditional labor game research to new contexts and provides a useful perspective for investigating labor control in creative, immaterial industries.... Wu is attentive to workers’ forms of resistance throughout her book.... [Play to Submission] will therefore be important reading for scholars in game production studies and in broader studies of creative and immaterial labor."—Work and Occupations
“The book convincingly argues that through game-focused discourses...workers find agency that leads to overlooking exploitation and even drives them to self-surveillance and self-management.... Wu’s incisive study of the totalizing effect of these dozens of different games stands as one of the chief contributions of this project. There is much to be learned here about the people and the companies creating the platforms we now spend so much of our lives within.”—American Journal of Sociology
"[T]his is a remarkable book for those who want to better understand what happens at the core of the Behemoths of Big Tech. It should be of interest not only to researchers in labor studies but to anyone interested in delving into how the most socially prized products today are produced. Play to Submission offers robust fieldwork, an engaging and enjoyable narrative, and a fascinating analysis and conceptualization of Tongyu Wu’s findings."—ILR Review
“In her fascinating book, Play to Submission, Tongyu Wu takes the theory and practice of the organization of games in the creative workplace to an entirely new level. She shows how the increasingly popular ‘gamification’ of work can have very different implications for manager-worker relations, relations among workers themselves, and worker commitment. A must-read for anyone interested in the future of work.”—Michael Burawoy, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Public Sociology: Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia
“Rooted in rich ethnographic research, Play to Submission is an insightful critical investigation of the gamification of the labor process of software engineers at a corporate center of digital capitalism. Beyond detailing how tech work is comprehensively gamified in a bid to mobilize engineers’ commitment, cooperation, and competition, Wu’s study of the gamified workplace shows how capacities developed in consumption—video game play—are put to work as a labor-control strategy in production.”—Greig de Peuter, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, and coauthor of Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games
Notă biografică
Tongyu Wu is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Zhejiang University in China.