Author(s)

Cui Dongyu

Corresponding Author

Cui Dongyu

Abstract

With the development of social productive forces, new economic forms have been applied to people's lives. The digital economy has become an integral part of people's daily lives. Under the digital economy, non-employed digital labor has emerged, which is different from labor under traditional capitalism. Influenced by capital and technology, although non-employed digital labor differs in form from traditional wage labor, it still essentially belongs to the capitalist labor process and is an important source of forming the value and surplus value of data commodities. With the booming development of online social media, while enjoying the convenience, the vast number of users have unconsciously become free, non-employed digital laborers. Under the invisible exploitation of capitalists, this paper uses Marx's theory of alienated labor in Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the labor theory of value and the theory of surplus value in Das Kapital to analyze the labor of non-employed digital laborers.

Keywords

Non-employed digital labor; Alienated labor; Labor theory of value; Theory of surplus value