AO: The analysts are thinking over the valuing of volunteer labor within scholarly collaborative projects. How not to broad-brush categorize all scholarly work that doesn’t have a wage-relation as inherently exploitative and also not to make payment the sole criterion for valuing the kind of work that we do. They hold that key to an ethical engagement with volunteer colleagues is not separate from the ways we think about paid labor–and that “this means thinking about the specific conditions both of those undertaking the work as well as the nature of the work itself.”
