[Air-L] Journal of Peer Production #10: Peer production and work

[george dafermos]

[Apologies for multiple posts]

We are delighted to announce the release of Journal of Peer Production #10:
"Peer production and work"

http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-10-peer-production-and-work/

Issue editors: Mathieu O’Neil (University of Canberra) and Stefano
Zacchiroli (University Paris Diderot and Inria)

The increasing production of value by entities which are not compensated
for their labour means the ranks of unemployed people keep growing. We
often confuse being ‘unemployed’ with being ‘unworked’, but what it really
means is that we are ‘unwaged’. There is a lot of work to be done, but for
that to happen it needs to be separated from employment. Where does peer
production fit in? The passionate labour and abjuration of exclusive
property rights over the goods they produce of participants in peer
projects occur at the expense of less fortunate others, who do not have the
disposable income, cultural capital, or family support to engage in unpaid
labour.
On the other hand, we should avoid an overly ‘capitalocentric’ view of the
economy. New forms of solidarity can be imagined. An increasingly large
free public goods and services sector could well cohabit in a plural
economy with employment in cooperatives, paid independent work, and the
wage-earning of the commercial sector. The peer-reviewed articles in this
tenth issue of the Journal of Peer Production explore such emerging
assemblages through case studies of an online encyclopedia, a herbarium, a
scientific project, mathematical schoolbooks, and ‘maker’ activities. The
Editorial Section addresses the interplay of capital and commons in firms
and peer projects. It argues that it is time for the Journal of Peer
Production to move beyond an exclusive focus on DIY institutions, in order
to research and develop the culture and regulations and which can grow the
commons.

EDITORIAL SECTION

Making Lovework: Editorial Notes
Mathieu O’Neil, Stefano Zacchiroli

>From the Commons to Capital: Red Hat, Inc. and the Business of Free Software
Benjamin J. Birkinbine

Preliminary Report on the Influence of Capital in an Ethical-Modular
Project: Quantitative data from the Debian Survey
Mathieu O’Neil, Stefano Zacchiroli, Molly de Blanc, Mahin Raissi

Now, the Commons
Journal of Peer Production

PEER REVIEWED PAPERS

Producing a Knowledge Commons: Tensions Between Paid Work and Peer
Production in a Public Institution
Lorna Heaton, Patricia Dias da Silva

Crowdsourcing Citizen Science: Exploring the Tensions Between Paid
Professionals and Users
Jamie Woodcock, Anita Greenhill, Kate Holmes, Gary Graham, Joe Cox, Eun
Young Oh, Karen Masters

Makers as a New Work Condition Between Self-employment and Community
Peer-production. Insights from a survey on Makers in Italy.
Massimo Menichinelli, Massimo Bianchini, Alessandra Carosi, Stefano Maffei

Communal Work and Professional Involvement: the Balance of Open Source
Projects
Clement Bert-Erboul

A Critical Political Economic Framework for Peer Production’s Relation to
Capitalism
Arwid Lund [html]

VARIA

Common sense: An Examination of Three Los Angeles Community WiFi Projects
that Privileged Public Funding over Commons-based Infrastructure Management
Gwen Shaffer

“Think Global, Print Local”: A Case study of a Commons-based Publishing and
Distribution Model
Vasilis Kostakis, Stacco Troncoso, Ann Marie Utratel

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