@casilli
FYI, the #HopeLabor concept: « This research introduces 'hope labor' as a motivation for voluntary online social production, defined here as ‘un- or under-compensated work carried out in the present, often for experience or exposure, in the hope that future #employment opportunities may follow’. »
http://www.polecom.org/index.php/polecom/article/view/9

Heard that term in a recent podcast of #JeremyScahill: « Just Following Orders »
https://theintercept.com/2018/05/09/just-following-orders/
#DigitalLabor

"Hope labor"
https://theintercept.com/2018/05/09/just-following-orders/

❝(...) the free work that you do in the hopes that you will eventually get paid for it.❞
❝[in journalism] But this is true in all sorts of particularly creative industries, in tech, in all sorts of places where you have to do a whole lot of sort of investing in building up human capital so to speak, right, to get a job at all.❞
New term for me. I'd definitely add Academia to that list.

#podcast #intercepted #hopeLabor