Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy

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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• Indústrias das tecnologias da informação
• Aspectos éticos e sociais da Tecnologia Informática
• Padrões e práticas do trabalho
• Economia política
• Sociologia: trabalho e mão de obra

Platform economy; Amazon; Alienation; Labour organization; Agency