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Mark Graham is Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute, and Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. He is the editor of Digital Economies at Global Margins (MIT Press and IDRC). Fabian Ferrari is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. Acknowledgments vii 1 Introduction 1 Mark Graham and Fabian Ferrari I Grounding Planetary Networks 2 Moving beyond Shanzhai? Contradictions of Platformized Family Production in the Planetary Network of E-Commerce Labor 23 Lin Zhang 3 How Do Workers Survive and Thrive in the Platform Economy? Evidence from China and the Philippines 41 Julie Chen and Cheryll Ruth Soriano 4 “Follower Factories” in Indonesia and Beyond: Automation and Labor in a Transnational Market 59 Johan Lindquist 5 Moderating in Obscurity: How Indian Content Moderators Work in Global Content Moderation Value Chains 77 Sana Ahmad and Martin Krzywdzinski 6 Digital Livelihoods in Exile: Refugee Work and the Planetary Digital Labor Market 97 Andreas Hackl II Mapping Planetary Networks 7 Working the Digital Silk Road: Alibaba’s Digital Free Trade Zone in Malaysia 117 Brett Neilson 8 The Planetary Stacking Order of Multilayered Crowd-AI Systems 137 Florian A. Schmidt 9 In Search of Stability at a Time of Upheaval: Digital Freelancing in Venezuela 157 Hannah Johnston 10 Human Listeners and Virtual Assistants: Privacy and Labor Arbitrage in the Production of Smart Technologies 175 Paola Tubaro and Antonio A. Casilli 11 The Proletarianization of Data Science 191 James Steinhoff III Dissecting Planetary Networks 12 Organizing in (and against) a New Cold War: The Case of 996.ICU 209 JS Tan and Moira Weigel 13 Planetary Potemkin AI: The Humans Hidden inside Mechanical Minds 229 Jathan Sadowski 14 Data, Compute, Labor 241 Nick Srnicek 15 Cellular Capitalism: Life and Labor at the End of the Digital Supply Chain 263 Matthew Hockenberry IV Reimagining Planetary Networks 16 An International Governance System for Digital Work in the Planetary Market 283 Janine Berg 17 Righting the Wrong: Putting Workers’ Data Rights Firmly on the Table 291 Christina J. Colclough 18 Fair Work, Feminist Design, and Women’s Labor Collectives 303 Payal Arora and Usha Raman 19 Tilt the Scroll to Repair: Efficient Inhuman Workforce at Global Chains of Care 319 Joana Moll and Jara Rocha Contributors 329 Index 331
