2021 - Franco Angeli
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Labor on tap : putting the internet crowd to work
129-145 p.
- In the era of connectivity, companies find fundamentally new ways of accessing workforce: On the internet a standby labor force is at their disposal allowing to source labor on demand just like electricity from the socket. It seems as if the masses of people willingly offering their skills, time and energy to crowdsourcing platforms can be considered a stateoftheart manifestation of standingreserve as Martin Heidegger described with regard to nature. His concept of standingreserve denotes the fact that something exists just to be ready for use and functions merely as a source of profit. The fact that companies today have labor available on tap also results in new forms of working, which are determined by peculiarities and specific ways of how the platforms organize working processes and deal with the crowd.
- To ensure performance and to deliver a consistent service the platforms must incessantly exert force in order to turn a scattered pool of individuals into a purposeful whole. The standby labor force can be seen as an extreme instance of how algorithmically infused processes shape the contours of labor today. [Publisher's text].
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Studi organizzativi : XXIII, 1, 2021-
Informazioni
Codice DOI: 10.3280/SO2021-001006
ISSN: 1972-4969
PAROLE CHIAVE
- Standby labor force, standingreserve, crowdworking, platform economy, internet crowd
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