Labor politics offers a responsible way of maintaining a critical approach to electronic writing within the context of vocationalization.  Critical reading, writing, and thinking requires a critical pedagogy.  Traditionally, I have introduced critical practices into my electronic writing classes by focusing on the challenges networked computing poses to many of our basic ideological assumptions about the nature of reading and writing -- an approach which is still very important, useful, and necessary.  I have come to believe, however, that I should supplement the critical focus of my courses with a critique of work.  What counts as work in the digital age?  What is valued?  How so?  These are just some of the introductory questions we can use to begin our investigation of digital labor.