Microsoft and the Yeoman Coders
Microsoft’s purchase of Github is the latest chapter in capitalism’s oldest story: the absorption of artisan labor into the circuits of capital.
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Gavin Mueller is a contributing editor at Jacobin. He lives in Washington, DC.
Microsoft’s purchase of Github is the latest chapter in capitalism’s oldest story: the absorption of artisan labor into the circuits of capital.
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