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Kingsley, Sara; Gray, Mary-Louise; Suri, Siddharth Monopsony and the Crowd: Labor for Lemons? 2014 PP_PREPRINT Digital Labour, Capitalism, Digital Labour, Automation Crowdsourcing, Cloud Computing, Gendered Labour, Invisible Work, Peer Production, Microwork, Digital Labour, Turker, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon (Company), Control, Infrastructure Studies, Feminist Studies, Alienation, Crowdworkers, Monopsony
Citation Kingsley, Sara; Gray, Mary-Louise; Suri, Siddharth 2014 PP_PREPRINT SSRN Crowdsourcing Cloud Computing Gendered Labour Invisible Work Peer Production Microwork Digital Labour Turker Amazon Mechanical Turk Amazon (Company) Control Infrastructure Studies Feminist Studies Alienation Crowdworkers Monopsony Digital Labour Capitalism Digital Labour Automation

"Monopsony and the Crowd: Labor for Lemons?"

by Kingsley, Sara; Gray, Mary-Louise; Suri, Siddharth (2014)

Abstract

Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) is an online labor market (OLM) where requesters ("employers") post tasks ("jobs") for workers to do for pay. We evaluate whether requesters on the platform have monopsony power and whether the platform is competitive or not in regards to labor.

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Crowdsourcing, Cloud Computing, Gendered Labour, Invisible Work, Peer Production, Microwork, Digital Labour, Turker, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon (Company), Control, Infrastructure Studies, Feminist Studies, Alienation, Crowdworkers, Monopsony

Themes

Digital Labour, Capitalism, Digital Labour, Automation

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