<p><strong>Praise for <em>Working the Phones</em>:</strong></p><p>“A sharp reminder of the difficulties faced by call-center workers.” —<em>The Financial Times</em></p><p>“Jamie Woodcock shows us what call-centers can tell us about bleakness and resistance in the modern workplace.” —<em>VICE</em></p><p>“Jamie Woodcock’s brilliant insider account of life in a British call-center reveals the dirty realities of digital capitalism . . . a book that is sure to become a classic.” —Peter Fleming, author of <em>The Mythology of Work</em></p><p>“Woodcock knows not only his theory but his subject inside out. There’s casualization, cruelty, and regimentation, but also subversion, and his focus on employee resistance offers a flicker of hope.” —<em>Times Higher Education</em></p><p>In <em>Marx at the Arcade</em>, acclaimed researcher Jamie Woodcock delves into the hidden abode of the gaming industry. In an account that will appeal to hardcore gamers, digital skeptics, and the joystick-curious, Woodcock unravels the vast networks of artists, software developers, and factory and logistics workers whose seen and unseen labor flows into the products we consume on a gargantuan scale. Along the way, he analyzes the increasingly important role the gaming industry plays in contemporary capitalism and the broader transformations of work and the economy that it embodies.</p><p><strong>Jamie Woodcock </strong>is a sociologist of work, focusing on digital labor, the gig economy, and resistance. He is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics and is the author of the award-winning <em>Working the Phones </em>(2016). He is on the editorial board of Historical Materialism and an editor of <em>Notes from Below</em>, an online journal of workers’ inquiry.</p>
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<p><strong>Jamie Woodcock</strong> is a sociologist of work, focusing on digital labour, the gig economy, and resistance. He is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, and is the author of the award-winning Working the Phones (2016). He is on the editorial board of the Historical Materialism and an editor of Notes from Below, an online journal of workers’ inquiry.</p><p> </p>
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