LABRST 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Temporary Foreign Worker Program In Canada, Affective Labor, Precarity

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 2C03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

Facebook, spending all this free time on facebook, feeding into mark zuckerbergs company) Doing intellectual, cognitive work for these companies (collecting your data) Valuable market strategies (use information collected off facebook ex. It is labour that you put in to generate feelings in others. Affective labour autonomous marxists call affective labour something that is more manipulative, and refer equally to body and mind. Affective labour is you doing things to generate an affect in someone else. A number of autonomous marxists have picked up on this and point out that the pictures you post of yourself are affective labour (ex. How you pose, what you are showing in that picture, etc) You aren"t just presenting yourself, you"re are doing the work for others to draw them onto this site. Bio-political labour this is labour that creates goods and relationships (social life itself) Autonomous marxists are very interested in online communities.