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Record Nr.

UNINA9910520308803321

Autore

Anwar Mohammad Amir

Titolo

The digital continent : placing Africa in planetary networks of work / / Mohammad Amir Anwar, Mark Graham [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2022

ISBN

0-19-187645-3

0-19-257748-4

0-19-257749-2

9780198840800

9780192577498

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

243 pages

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

331.096

Soggetti

Labor - Africa

Internet - Economic aspects - Africa

Technological innovations - Economic aspects - Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

"This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

'The Digital Continent' investigates what the impact of the growth of digital work in Africa means for workers. The book draws on a year-long field study conducted in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Uganda to provide one of the first empirical studies on the topic.