Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism Jones Phil
Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism Jones Phil An accessible analysis of the new forms of work whose seismic changes will increasingly determine the future of…
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Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism Jones Phil
An accessible analysis of the new forms of work whose seismic changes will increasingly determine the future of capitalismAutomation and the decline in industrial employment have lead to rising fears of a workless future. Here, small tasks are assigned to people online, and are often used to train algorithms to spot patterns, patterns through machine learning those same algorithms will then be able to spot more effectively than humans. But what happens when your work itself is the thing that will make your job obsolete?In the past few years, online crowdworking platforms - like Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Clickworker - have become an increasingly important source of work, particularly for those in the Global South.
Used for everything from the mechanics of self-driving cars to Google image search, this is an increasingly powerful part of the digital ecomomy. But what