Open Access“YES, I WILL WORK ON MY FREE TIME” – DIGITAL WORK ON AMAZON MECHANICAL TURK AS THE HISTORICAL CONTINUATION OF THE EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN'S LABOR
Author(s) -
Bruno Moreschi,
Amanda Chevtchouk Jurno,
Monique Lemos
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
selected papers of internet research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2162-3317
DOI - 10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12213
Subject(s) - amazon rainforest , autonomy , work (physics) , capitalism , sociology , power (physics) , gender studies , engineering , political science , law , mechanical engineering , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics , politics , biology
In this proposal, we pursue an approximation to Amazon MechanicalTurk (AMT) women workers to understand their specificities and their layers of dependence inthis environment so pertinent to the “late capitalism” (Crary 2016). AMT is an onlineplatform where workers perform low-paid services that cannot be efficiently automated. Since2019, in the Group [Anonymized excerpt], at the University [Anonymized excerpt], we havecarried out projects where we approach these workers in an attempt to understand theirroutines, desires and the future of work itself. In our experiences, it has become evidentthat women turkers tend to be even more precarious due to gender issues passed to AMT. Alsowe concluded that AMT help keeping the women labor power available for unpaid domesticservices and, at the same time, make it profitable for several companies. To understand moreabout them, we conducted a survey with 53 women turkers and systematized their responses. Weapproached some of them to understand the relationship between Artificial Intelligence andgender issues, and also ways of better working conditions and more autonomy for these womenworkers.