We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new world of effortless labour and a post-work utopia of ever expanding leisure. But behind the gleaming surface stands millions of workers, often in the Global South, manually processing data for a pittance.Recent years have seen a boom in online crowdworking platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Clickworker, and these have become ...
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Work Without the Worker
Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism
Jones, Phil
Gebunden, 176
Sprache: Englisch
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Gewicht: 202 g
ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-043-3
Titelnr.: 90646548