Work without the worker / Phil Jones

Public ISBD Titre : Work without the worker : Labour in the age of platform capitalism Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Phil Jones, Auteur Editeur : Verso Année de publication : 2021 Importance : 134 p Note générale : 01.03 JON Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Numérique Conditions de travail Tags : Numérique  GAFAM  Travail de plateforme Index. décimale : 01.03 - Economie digitale Résumé : 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 an increasingly important source of work for millions of people. And it is these badly paid tasks, not algorithms, that make our digital lives possible. Used to process data for everything from the mechanics of self-driving cars to Google image search, this is an increasingly powerful part of the new digital economy, although one hidden and rarely spoken of. Work without the worker : Labour in the age of platform capitalism [texte imprimé] / Phil Jones, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Verso, 2021 . - 134 p. 01.03 JON Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Numérique Conditions de travail Tags : Numérique  GAFAM  Travail de plateforme Index. décimale : 01.03 - Economie digitale Résumé : 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 an increasingly important source of work for millions of people. And it is these badly paid tasks, not algorithms, that make our digital lives possible. Used to process data for everything from the mechanics of self-driving cars to Google image search, this is an increasingly powerful part of the new digital economy, although one hidden and rarely spoken of.

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