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In this chapter, I discuss some of the foundations for a digital labour theory of value, namely the concepts of time (Section 2), productive labour (Section 3), rent (Section 4) and fetishism (Section 5).1
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Fuchs, C. (2015). The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Weibo. In: Fisher, E., Fuchs, C. (eds) Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age. Dynamics of Virtual Work Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137478573_2
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