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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew ColePublisher: Verso Books Imprint: Verso Books Edition: Paperback original Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.280kg ISBN: 9781804295663ISBN 10: 1804295663 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 26 May 2026 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: A Fair Day’s Wage 1– The State of Wage Theft 2– Technoligarchy 3– Lineages of Unpaid Labour 4– Property is Still Theft 5– The Commodification of Labour and its Limits 6– Rethinking Wage Theft 7– Another Work is Possible Conclusion: Expropriating the FutureReviewsA searing and revelatory unmasking of the despicable reality of modern capitalism. Few books are able to make complex ideas so accessible - yet this is one of them -- Owen Jones Passionately political. A vital read for anyone who works for a living -- Gavin Mueller, author of <i>Breaking Things at Work</i> A searing and revelatory unmasking of the despicable reality of modern capitalism. Few books are able to make complex ideas so accessible - yet this is one of them -- Owen Jones Passionately political. A vital read for anyone who works for a living -- Gavin Mueller, author of <i>Breaking Things at Work</i> An absolutely essential guide to capitalist class relations. Unpaid unflinchingly catalogues the reality of labour exploitation under capitalism, presenting Marx's most important ideas in a clear, succinct and compelling way -- Grace Blakeley, author of <i>Vulture Capitalism</i> The future is being stolen from us, day by day. The glorious technological future we are constantly being told is imminent is in fact, Matt Cole reminds us, built with unpaid labor. In this deeply researched and meticulously argued book, Cole provides a sharpened blade with which to take on the techno-oligarchs (and ordinary bad bosses, too) -- Sarah Jaffe, author of <i>From the Ashes</i> and <i>Work Won’t Love You Back</i> Author InformationDr Matthew Cole is a Lecturer on Technology, Work and Employment at the University of Sussex, researching wage theft and technological change. He is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford internet Institute working on the Fairwork Project and the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit). His work has been published in Tribune, Novara, Vice, OpenDemocracy, The Independent, Salvage, and in various academic journals. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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