Richard Lichtman, The Production of Desire: The Integration of Psychoanalysis into Marxist Theory The Free Press, 1986
Ellen Cushing, "Dawn of the Digital Sweatshop" East Bay Express
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In Part Two of an extended interview, Richard Lichtman elaborates further on worker alienation under capitalism and the nature of ideology. Also, Ellen Cushing describes an emerging form of hyper-alienated labor: it's crowdsourced microtasking, it pays tiny wages, and it's a growing multimillion-dollar industry.