PDF Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass Writen By Mary L. Gray
Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
By : Mary L. Gray
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Book Synopsis :
In the spirit of Nickel and Dimed, a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web?and that foreshadows the true future of work.Hidden beneath the surface of the web, lost in our wrong-headed 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 high-tech piecework: flagging X-rated 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
Book Detail :
Author : Mary L. Gray
Pages : 288 pages
Publisher : Mariner Books
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 1328566242
ISBN-13 : 9781328566249
Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc.
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