US Policy Approaches to Digital Labor

Madeline Carr

Chapter 10.2 in Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society, 2010, pp 247-249 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Although digital labor is often discussed in the context of the private sector, governments have also been closely engaged with the development of this element of the workforce. In America, there have been strong political links between digital labor and ideas of American power—both material and social—and these ideas have been instrumental in shaping digital labor. A study of US political history of the late 1980s and 1990s, when the Internet was still in its infancy, reveals a proactive policy and legislative approach designed to enhance the US digital workforce in order to ensure future prosperity.

Keywords: Federal Communication Commission; Policy Approach; Military Spending; Defense Spending; American Power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230299047_40

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