What happens when jobs are turned into tasks?
Digital labour platforms are rapidly transforming the world of work. Many governments in the global south have welcomed platforms that bringBut what happens when jobs are turned into tasks? Workers are increasingly managed by apps that allocate these tasks and monitor their performance. Platform workers face low pay, poor working conditions — and algorithmic surveillance.
The second are “online web-based”. They mediate tasks such as data categorisation and translation and editing services that can, in theory, be performed anywhere via the internet and remotely. This increased flexibility is said to provide workers, particularly women who have to balance paid and unpaid care work, with income opportunities and greater autonomy over their work.shows that the flexibility of many of these jobs comes at a cost to workers’ economic security and control over the work process.
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