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Can Code Schools Go Cooperative?

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Gregory, K. (2017). Can Code Schools Go Cooperative?. In Schneider, N. and Scholz, T. (eds) Ours to Hack and to Own. OR Books, pp. 196-199

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[...] While coding may sound like a solution to current market woes, in truth, it will only delay the eventual degradation of such digital labor. When everyone can code, those jobs too will go the way of other forms of work--outsourced, undervalued, underpaid, or automated. However, a digital skills curriculum anchored in labor theory and labor history--a curriculum that explores the possibilities of new forms of collectivities, organizing, and worker agency--has the potential not only to generate a new app or platform, but to reconfigure how digital labor is brought into being and how we imagine continuing to live in and through digital platforms, networks, and infrastructures.

I feel vindicated by this, after what I said in my Liam Byrne piece

—p.198 by Karen Gregory 6 years, 10 months ago

[...] While coding may sound like a solution to current market woes, in truth, it will only delay the eventual degradation of such digital labor. When everyone can code, those jobs too will go the way of other forms of work--outsourced, undervalued, underpaid, or automated. However, a digital skills curriculum anchored in labor theory and labor history--a curriculum that explores the possibilities of new forms of collectivities, organizing, and worker agency--has the potential not only to generate a new app or platform, but to reconfigure how digital labor is brought into being and how we imagine continuing to live in and through digital platforms, networks, and infrastructures.

I feel vindicated by this, after what I said in my Liam Byrne piece

—p.198 by Karen Gregory 6 years, 10 months ago