Ghost Work • By Mary L. Gray and Siddarth Suri • Houghton Mifflin • 288 pages • ISBN: 978-1-328-56624-9 • $27 The technology industry loves nothing better than to dress up something old in idealistic language and offer it up as a bright, new benefit. Flea markets existed long before eBay consolidated them into a website; clubs shared cars and friends surfed each other’s couches long before Uber and Airbnb ‘invented’ the ‘sharing economy’; and task-based employment existed for centuries before platforms like CrowdFlower, CloudFactory, and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk began touting the flexibility of on-demand micro-employment. It was known […]
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