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Slaves to Technology: Worker control in the surveillance economy
Anti-Trafficking Review, 2020 Technology is enabling new forms of coercion and control over workers. While digital platforms for labour markets have been seen as benign or neutral technology, in reality they may enable new forms of worker exploitation.
Bama Athreya
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Digital labour markets: the hard questions [PDF]
, 2017 They have potentially positive and negative effects; it's important to debunk some of the hype and rhetoric, writes Cristiano Codagnone. In 1770 Wolfgang von Kempelen presented a sort of robot called the Turk (hidden inside there was, in reality, a ...
Codagnone, Cristiano
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Moving Beyond Microwork: Rebundling Digital Education and Reterritorialising Digital Labour [PDF]
, 2019 Digital labour is often reduced to microwork, granular tasks disassociated from a larger work project, and the labour market to serve these activities is distributed and largely unorganised as a collective body. Larger platform employers such as Amazon Mechanical Turk and Samasource have mobilised large pools of labour towards microtasks which, often ...
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A programmable interpenetrating double‐network architecture, created via 3D‐TIPS printing and resin infusion, synergistically combines thermoplastic and thermosetting elastomers to balance structural rigidity and surface softness—crucial for paediatric laryngeal stents.
Elizabeth F. Maughan +14 more
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What Should a Good Concept of Labour Do? The Case of Digital Labour
Italian Labour Law e-JournalThe term ‘digital labour’ has gained significant traction in academic discussions, yet its meaning remains unclear and widely contested. This paper argues that to advance the debate on the nature of digital labour, we must shift the discussion to the ...
Miguel Rudolf-Cibien +1 more
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Organizing Dark Matter: W.A.G.E. as Alternative Worker Organization [PDF]
, 2020 Since its founding in 2008, W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) has worked to reform the economic habits of US art institutions and of the artists upon whose cultural work these institutions are dependent. Inside a decade, W.A.G.E.
de Peuter, Greig
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Peptide Sequencing With Single Acid Resolution Using a Sub‐Nanometer Diameter Pore
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.To sequence a single molecule of Aβ1−42–sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), the aggregate is forced through a sub‐nanopore 0.4 nm in diameter spanning a 4.0 nm thick membrane. The figure is a visual molecular dynamics (VMD) snapshot depicting the translocation of Aβ1−42–SDS through the pore; only the peptide, the SDS, the Na+ (yellow/green) and Cl− (cyan ...
Apurba Paul +8 more
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Le digital labour, extension infinie ou fin du travail ?
Tracés, 2017 This article considers that the emergence of digital labour studies is revealing of two current trends: the framing of a growing number of social activities as labour, the growing economic importance of algorithmic automation.
Sébastien Broca
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Sociedad de la información y exclusion socio-laboral : una reflexión en torno a los efectos de las NTIC en el campo de la inserción socio-económica [PDF]
, 2010 Este estudio versa sobre la Sociedad de la Información y los recientes cambios en el mercado de trabajo. Se centra en la "brecha digital" - desigualdad en el acceso a las nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación - en el contexto europeo como un ...
Miedes Ugarte, Blanca
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The Right to the Sustainable Smart City [PDF]
, 2019 Environmental concerns have driven an interest in sustainable smart cities, through the monitoring and optimisation of networked infrastructures. At the same time, there are concerns about who these interventions and services are for, and who benefits ...
Baggio Aline +10 more
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