Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy 9781529226560, 9781529226546, 9781529226577

Table of contents :
1. Introduction

Part 1: Examining The World of Work and Workers

2. How to Study Alienation: Marx’s Four Relations

3. How to Grasp Agency: The Power Resources Approach

Part 2: The Birth and Growth of Platforms

4. Historicizing Three Generations of Platforms

5. Contextualizing Amazon’s Growing Empire

Part 3: Workers on the (Digital) Amazon Shop Floor

6. Cog in the Machine: Working the Amazon Circulation Line

7. “I Am Not a Robot”: (Trans)national Labour Organization at the Warehouses

8. “Artificial Artificial Intelligence”: Gigging on Amazon Mechanical Turk

9. Instrumentalizing Technology: Digital Solidarity with and among MTurk Workers

10. Alienation Across Amazon and the Platform Economy

11. The Power of Amazon Workers and Platform Workers

12. Conclusion

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