Remote Work and the Emerging Urban Proletariat Graduates: Ideological Analysis of New Labor Forms and Exploitation Mechanisms

Abstract

Starting from Herbert Marcuse's theory of labour and emancipation, this study critically discusses the dialectical impact of telework on emerging urban proletarian university graduates through ideological analysis and factual case studies. The paper reveals that the apparent advantages of telework in terms of flexibility and autonomy actually obscure the ideological control of technological rationality and the mechanisms of modern capitalist exploitation. The discussion uncovers the unfavourable employment environment of inexperienced new graduates facing career instability, extended labour hours and intrusive surveillance in the context of telework. And it further reveals the importance of promoting social justice to ensure that new graduates can truly achieve labour liberation.