Play to Submission (eBook)

Gaming Capitalism in a Tech Firm

Tongyu Wu (Autor)

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2024
Temple University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4399-2299-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Games are often a fun perk of a tech company job, and employees can "e;play to win"e; in the competition to succeed. But in studying "e;Behemoth"e; (a pseudonym for a top American tech company), Tongyu Wu discovered that gaming work culture was far more insidious. Play to Submission shows how Behemoth's games undermined and manipulated workers. They lost their work-life balance and the constant competition made labor organizing difficult. Nonetheless, many workers embraced management's games as a chance to show off their "e;gamer"e; identities and create a workplace culture with privileged insiders and exiled outsiders, with female and migrant workers usually in the latter group. Moreover, Wu indicates this may be the future of work for high- and low-skilled and, creative workers in an environment where capitalists have heightened demands for technology and creativity. Drawing from 13 months of ethnographic work, Wu presents a persistent reality in which the company reaps the reward of surplus productivity, leaving employees themselves in a highly competitive and sometimes precarious work position.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.6.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Spieleprogrammierung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• ISBN-10: 1-4399-2299-3 / 1439922993
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4399-2299-6 / 9781439922996