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• A timely analysis of work on the digital shop floor of the platform economy. • Based on extensive fieldwork, including interviews with Amazon workers.

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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      Publisher Bristol University Press
      Published 28 February 2023
      ISBN-13 9781529226546
      978-1529226546
      ISBN-10 1529226546
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      Political economy Working patterns and practices Social and ethical aspects

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      • A timely analysis of work on the digital shop floor of the platform economy. • Based on extensive fieldwork, including interviews with Amazon workers.

      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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