Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Mark Graham and Fabian Ferrari -- Moving beyond Shanzhai? Contradictions of platformized family production in the planetary network of e-commerce labor / Lin Zhang -- How do workers survive and thrive in the platform economy? Evidence from China and Philippines / Julie Chen and Cheryll Ruth Soriano -- Follower factories in Indonesia and beyond : automation and labor in a transnational market / Johan Lindquist -- Moderating in obscurity : how Indian content moderators work in global content moderation value chains / Sana Ahmad and Martin Krzywdzinski -- Digital livelihoods in exile : refugee work and the planetary digital labor / Market Andreas Hackl -- Working the Digital Silk Road : Alibaba's digital free trade zone in Malaysia / Brett Neilson -- The global stacking order of multilayered crowd-AI systems / Florian A. Schmidt -- In search of stability at a time of upheaval : freelancing in Venezuela / Hannah Johnston -- Human listeners and virtual assistants : privacy and labor arbitrage in the production of smart technologies / Paola Tubaro and Antonio A. Casilli -- The proletarianization of data science / James Steinhoff -- Organizing in (and against) a new cold war : the case of 996.ICU / J.S. Tan and Moira Weigel -- Planetary Potemkin AI : the humans hidden inside mechanical minds / Jathan Sadowski -- Data, compute, labor / Nick Srnicek -- Cellular capitalism : life and labor at the end of the digital supply chain / Matthew Hockenberry -- An international governance system for digital work in the planetary market / Janine Berg -- Righting the wrong : putting workers' data rights firmly on the table Christina J. Colclough -- Fair work, feminist design, and women's labor collectives /Payal Arora and Usha Raman -- Tilt the scroll to repair : efficient inhuman workforce at global chains of care / Joana Moll and Jara Rocha

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