“Doctorow is indispensable. It's hard to imagine any other author taking on youth and technology with such passion, intelligence, and understanding.” ―Booklist, starred review on The Win “For the Win is not a perfect book―merely a glorious one.” ―The Seattle Times on The Win/5(). · Cory Doctorow’s dystopian novel For the Win tells the story of the exploitation of an online role playing game’s economy. In the running of what could be classed as electronic sweatshops throughout Asia, gold farmers suffer from very poor work conditions in the effort to mine gold and find virtual treasure to sell to first world customers/5. · Read Online. This book is available for free download in a number of formats - including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. You can also read the full text online using our ereader. In the virtual future, you must organize to bltadwin.ru is a brilliant year-old from rural India whose leadership skills in virtual combat have earned her the title 3/5(5).
Cory Doctorow's latest YA novel, For The Win, just might be the Jungle of the digital age — a depiction of the plight of professional gamers and their struggle to unionize and extract concessions such as better pay, shorter hours, and safer working conditions (?!) from their employers through collective bargaining. Not being an avid gamer myself, much less a professional gold farmer, I'm. For the Win by Cory Doctorow Publisher: Tor Books on Genre: Science Fiction Target Age Group: New Adult, Young Adult Check out this book on Goodreads. In the virtual future, you must organize to survive. At any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games, questing and battling to win virtual "gold," jewels, and precious. Book Review: For the Win by Cory Doctorow At some point in the (near?) future, MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games) run some of the world's biggest economies. There are millions who play for fun, and then there are the millions of "gold farmers" in poor countries who play for prestige items for their bosses to sell to.
But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.” ― Cory Doctorow, For the Win. For the Win is a book about economics (a subject that suddenly got a lot more relevant about halfway through the writing of this book, when the world's economy slid unceremoniously into the toilet and got stuck there), justice, politics, games and labor. For the Win connects the dots between the way we shop, the way we organize, and. For the Win is a book about economics (a subject that suddenly got a lot more relevant about halfway through the writing of this book, when the world's economy slid unceremoniously into the toilet and got stuck there), justice, politics, games and labor.
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