Trebor Scholz es un
académico-activista y profesor asociado de Culture & Media en la New School
de Nueva York.
Su libro Uber-Worked and Underpaid.
How Workers are Disrupting the Digital Economy (Polity, 2016) lleva a cabo un analisis de los retos
planteados por el trabajo digital e introduce el concepto de cooperativismo de
plataforma como modo de unir los movimientos peer-to-peer y las cooperativas con los mercados laborales en línea, al
tiempo que se insiste en la propiedad común y el funcionamiento democrático.
Como editor, ha trabajado
en los volúmenes Digital Labor: The Internet
as Playground an Factory (Routledge,
2013), y Ours to Hack to Own: Platform
Cooperativism. A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet (con Nathan Schneider, OR, 2016).
En 2009, Scholz empezó a
dar las influyentes ponencias sobre trabajo digital de la New School. En la
actualidad, da frecuentes conferencias sobre el futuro del trabajo, la
solidaridad e Internet a investigadores del ámbito de la comunicación,
abogados, activistas, diseñadores, desarrolladores, sindicatos y legisladoresde
todo el mundo.
Sus artículos e ideas han
aparecido en The Nation, The Chronicle of
Higher Education, Le Monde y The Washington Post.
(en) Trebor Scholz is a
scholar-activist and Associate Professor for Culture & Media at The New
School in New York City.
His book Uber-Worked and Underpaid.
How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy (Polity,
2016) develops an analysis of the challenges posed by digital labor and
introduces the concept of platform cooperativism as a way of joining the
peer-to-peer and co-op movements with online labor markets while insisting on
communal ownership and democratic governance.
His edited volumes include Digital Labor: The Internet
as Playground and Factory (Routledge, 2013), and Ours to Hack and to Own:
Platform Cooperativism. A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer
Internet(with Nathan
Schneider, OR, 2016).
In 2009, Scholz started to
convene the influential digital labor conferences at The New School. Today, he
frequently presents on the future of work, solidarity, and the Internet to
media scholars, lawyers, activists, designers, developers, union leaders, and
policymakers worldwide.
His articles and ideas
have appeared in The Nation, The Chronicle of Higher Education,
Le Monde, and The Washington Post.
