Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass,Used

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass,Used

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In the spirit of Nickel and Dimed, a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the weband that foreshadows the true future of work.Hidden beneath the surface of the web, lost in our wrongheaded debates about AI, a new menace is looming. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force. These people doing "ghost work" make the internet seem smart. They perform hightech piecework: flagging Xrated content, proofreading, designing engine parts, and much more. An estimated 8 percent of Americans have worked at least once in this ghost economy, and that number is growing. They usually earn less than legal minimums for traditional work, they have no health benefits, and they can be fired at any time for any reason, or none.There are no labor laws to govern this kind of work, and these latterday assembly lines draw inand all too often overwork and underpaya surprisingly diverse range of workers: harried young mothers, professionals forced into early retirement, recent grads who cant get a toehold on the traditional employment ladder, and minorities shut out of the jobs they want. Gray and Suri also show how ghost workers, employers, and society at large can ensure that this new kind of work creates opportunityrather than miseryfor those who do it.

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