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cybertariat

cybertariat noun: a proletarian class who perform repetitive, unskilled, and low-paid digital labour (such as moderating online platforms or click farming).

Noun

cybertariat

  1. (Marxism, neologism, singular, singular-only) A proletarian class who perform repetitive, unskilled, and low-paid digital labour (such as moderating online platforms or click farming).
    • It is apparent that a new cybertariat is in the making. Whether it will perceive itself as such is another matter.2000, Ursula Huws, “The Making of a Cybertariat? Virtual Work in a Real World”, in Leo Panitch, Colin Leys, editors, Socialist Register, Working Classes, Global Realities, London: The Merlin Press...
    • On the eve of May Day, also known as International Workers' Day, all 50 volumes of the Marx and Engels Collected Works (MECW) were removed from the Marxists Internet Archive at Marxists.org at the request of the publisher, Lawrence & Wishart, igniting the cybertariat's fury.[2014 May 2, Jordan Pearson, “Not Even Radical Communist Literature Is Immune to Copyright Battles”, in VICE, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2023

Origin of cybertariat

Blend of cyber- + proletariat. Coined by researcher Ursula Huws in a 2000 essay (see quotation below).

Questions about cybertariat

What does cybertariat mean?
Cybertariat means a proletarian class who perform repetitive, unskilled, and low-paid digital labour (such as moderating online platforms or click farming).
What part of speech is cybertariat?
Cybertariat is a noun.

Words near cybertariat in the dictionary

  1. cybertalents
  2. cybertalk
  3. cybertarian
  4. cybertarianism
  5. cybertarians
  6. cybertariat
  7. cybertaxonomic
  8. cybertaxonomies
  9. cybertaxonomy
  10. cyberteacher
  11. cyberteachers

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