Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy 9781529226560, 9781529226546, 9781529226577
Once hidden behind the veils of entrepreneurship, it is now clear that platforms are reshaping the world of work, and Am
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English Year 2023
Table of contents :
1. Introduction
Part 1: Examining The World of Work and Workers
2. How to Study Alienation: Marx’s Four Relations
3. How to Grasp Agency: The Power Resources Approach
Part 2: The Birth and Growth of Platforms
4. Historicizing Three Generations of Platforms
5. Contextualizing Amazon’s Growing Empire
Part 3: Workers on the (Digital) Amazon Shop Floor
6. Cog in the Machine: Working the Amazon Circulation Line
7. “I Am Not a Robot”: (Trans)national Labour Organization at the Warehouses
8. “Artificial Artificial Intelligence”: Gigging on Amazon Mechanical Turk
9. Instrumentalizing Technology: Digital Solidarity with and among MTurk Workers
10. Alienation Across Amazon and the Platform Economy
11. The Power of Amazon Workers and Platform Workers
12. Conclusion
1. Introduction
Part 1: Examining The World of Work and Workers
2. How to Study Alienation: Marx’s Four Relations
3. How to Grasp Agency: The Power Resources Approach
Part 2: The Birth and Growth of Platforms
4. Historicizing Three Generations of Platforms
5. Contextualizing Amazon’s Growing Empire
Part 3: Workers on the (Digital) Amazon Shop Floor
6. Cog in the Machine: Working the Amazon Circulation Line
7. “I Am Not a Robot”: (Trans)national Labour Organization at the Warehouses
8. “Artificial Artificial Intelligence”: Gigging on Amazon Mechanical Turk
9. Instrumentalizing Technology: Digital Solidarity with and among MTurk Workers
10. Alienation Across Amazon and the Platform Economy
11. The Power of Amazon Workers and Platform Workers
12. Conclusion
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- Sarrah Kassem
