Sarrah Kassem, "Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization" (Bristol UP, 2023)
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The Rise of Amazon Mechanical Turk
Amazon is always evolving along with the wider conditions through different generations. It initially created these ideas for its own internal use, but then realized that, well, we could make a profit by rolling it out. And one example is Amazon Flex, where people depending on the country are in because it's not available in every country, you can pretty much become someone who's delivering Amazon packages like an Uber driver or delivery person.
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