Digital labour platforms and the future of work

By Janine Berg, M. Furrer, Ellie Harmon, U. Rani, Michael Six Silberman. 2018

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Subfields: Economics & Operations Research

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Evaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems in Systems and Society (2023, background): “…to the system development should check that crowdworking is conducted under basic ethical standards, such as the 18 Criteria for Fairer Microwork proposed by Berg et al. [29, p. 105] in Digital Labour Platforms and the Future of Work or the Oxford Internet Institute’s Fairwork Principles [75].”
The Psychological Well-Being of Content Moderators: The Emotional Labor of Commercial Moderation and Avenues for Improving Support (2021, background): “Various research has sought to support online workers in particular [12, 63, 64, 73].”
From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China (2021, unknown): “The recent global popularity of digital platforms that facilitate location-based or nonlocation-based service provision has renewed scholarly interests in flexible labour (see for example Berg et al., 2018; International Labour Organization (ILO), 2021; Wood et al., 2019).”
What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy (2020, background): “With some exceptions (Berg 2016, Berg & Rani 2018), most of the literature finds that a majority of platform workers use their earnings to supplement other sources, including full-time jobs.”
Community building on crowdwork platforms: Autonomy and control of online workers? (2020, background): “The idea of a community is additionally challenged by the crowds’ extreme heterogeneity as regards socio-demographic characteristics, motives and activity levels (Berg et al., 2018).”
Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Implications for the Future of Work (2019, unknown): “Indeed, AI has already started to shift the boundaries of the firm in favor of more and more services being insourced from external (labor) markets, such as through micro-tasks available through gig platforms (Berg et al., 2018b).”