Sarrah Kassem, "Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization" (Bristol UP, 2023)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Role of Technology in Resistance
The internet has come to kind of mediate this labor relationship in a different way. It also really pushes us to think about, to think about resistance maybe not so much in traditional terms either. So we have Turk Opticon, which was developed by Nili Irani and Six-Silbermann, which is essentially a way for workers to actually go and rate requesters. This would be your approval rating and obviously affects your access to other tasks.
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