Pre-Automation: Insourcing and Automating the Gig Economy

This paper examines a strategic configuration in the technology, logistics, and robotics industries that we call “pre-automation”: when emerging platform monopolies employ large, outsourced labor forces while simultaneously investing in developing the tools to replace these workers with in-house mac...

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Auteurs principaux: Janet A. Vertesi, Adam Goldstein, Diana Enriquez, Larry Liu, Katherine T. Miller
Format: Article
Langue:English
Publié: University of Bologna 2021-01-01
Collection:Sociologica
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Accès en ligne:https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/11657