Algorithms that Divide and Unite: Delocalisation, Identity and Collective Action in ‘Microwork’

By Vili Lehdonvirta. 2016

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Community building on crowdwork platforms: Autonomy and control of online workers? (2020, methodology): “With regards to the Amazon platform Mechanical Turk, scholars argue that platforms render human labour invisible and turn it into a flexible on-demand cloud service (Irani, 2015a, 2015b; Lehdonvirta, 2016).”
Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy (2018, unknown): “Both MTurk and CloudFlower are ‘microwork’ platforms, which by definition provide the most fragmented, deskilled and commodified work (Bergvall-Kåreborn and Howcroft, 2014; Lehdonvirta, 2016).”
Digital labour and development: impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods (2017, background): “picket lines) and enact solidarity with fellow workers on the other side of the planet (see Graham, 2016; Lehdonvirta, 2016); and the ownership and control of labour platforms in just a few unaccountable hands means that work tends to be performed outside of the purview of national governments: mini”
Welcome to the Gig Economy: neoliberal industrial relations and the case of Uber (2017, background): “Digital forms of labor have been characterised by piece-work, labor fragmentation, along with under-payment for goods and services (Irani 2015; Lehdonvitra 2016).”
Flexibility in the Gig Economy: Managing Time on Three Online Piecework Platforms (2018, unknown): “An index measuring the use of online gig platforms suggests that they are growing globally at an annual rate of 26 percent (Kässi & Lehdonvirta 2016).”
Algorithms at Work: The New Contested Terrain of Control (2020, background): “In this context, workers have limited power to shape face-to-face interactions and shopfloor games because of the control system’s features (Lehdonvirta, 2016).”