Counting ‘micro-workers’: societal and methodological challenges around new forms of labour
1
TAU -
TAckling the Underspecified
2 LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique
3 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
4 IDHES - Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Économie et de la Société
5 I3 SES - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation de Telecom Paris
6 SES - Département Sciences Economiques et Sociales
7 IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris
8 SID - Sociologie Information-Communication Design
2 LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique
3 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
4 IDHES - Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Économie et de la Société
5 I3 SES - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation de Telecom Paris
6 SES - Département Sciences Economiques et Sociales
7 IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris
8 SID - Sociologie Information-Communication Design
Paola Tubaro
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 8184
- IdHAL : paola-tubaro
- ORCID : 0000-0002-1215-9145
- IdRef : 086079840
Antonio A. Casilli
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 2320
- IdHAL : antonio-a-casilli
- ORCID : 0000-0003-2025-1627
- IdRef : 14668382X
Résumé
'Micro-work' consists of fragmented data tasks that myriad providers execute on online platforms. While crucial to the development of data-based technologies, this little visible and geographically spread activity is particularly difficult to measure. To fill this gap, we combined qualitative and quantitative methods (online surveys, in-depth interviews, capture-recapture techniques, and web traffic analytics) to count micro-workers in a single country, France. On the basis of this analysis, we estimate that approximately 260,000 people are registered with micro-work platforms. Of these some 50,000 are 'regular' workers who do micro-tasks at least monthly and we speculate that using a more restrictive measure of 'very active' workers decreases this figure to 15,000. This analysis contributes to research on platform labour and the labour in the digital economy that lies behind artificial intelligence.
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Counting ‘micro-workers’: societal and methodological challenges around new forms of labour
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Résumé |
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'Micro-work' consists of fragmented data tasks that myriad providers execute on online platforms. While crucial to the development of data-based technologies, this little visible and geographically spread activity is particularly difficult to measure. To fill this gap, we combined qualitative and quantitative methods (online surveys, in-depth interviews, capture-recapture techniques, and web traffic analytics) to count micro-workers in a single country, France. On the basis of this analysis, we estimate that approximately 260,000 people are registered with micro-work platforms. Of these some 50,000 are 'regular' workers who do micro-tasks at least monthly and we speculate that using a more restrictive measure of 'very active' workers decreases this figure to 15,000. This analysis contributes to research on platform labour and the labour in the digital economy that lies behind artificial intelligence.
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Auteur(s) |
Paola Tubaro
1, 2, 3, 4
, Clément Le Ludec
5, 6, 7, 8
, Antonio A. Casilli
5, 6, 7, 8
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TAU -
TAckling the Underspecified
( 1050019 )
- Université Paris-Saclay;
Bâtiment 660 - Shannon ;
91405 Orsay Cedex
- France
2
LRI -
Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique
( 1050003 )
- LRI - Bâtiments 650-660 Université Paris-Saclay 91405 Orsay Cedex
- France
3
CNRS -
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
( 441569 )
- France
4
IDHES -
Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Économie et de la Société
( 243735 )
- Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense bât T., bureau 218 200 avenue de la République 92000 Nanterre
-IDHE.S-Evry - Université d¹Evry Val d¹Essonne - BD François Mitterand - 91000 Evry
- France
5
I3 SES -
Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation de Telecom Paris
( 420705 )
- Télécom Paris 19 Place Marguerite Perey 91120 PALAISEAU
- France
6
SES -
Département Sciences Economiques et Sociales
( 554515 )
- Télécom Paris 19 Place Marguerite Perey 91120 PALAISEAU
- France
7
IP Paris -
Institut Polytechnique de Paris
( 563936 )
- France
8
SID -
Sociologie Information-Communication Design
( 554668 )
- Télécom Paris 19 Place Marguerite Perey 91120 Palaiseau.
Devient NOS: Numérique, Organisation et Société
- France
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Paternité - Pas de modifications
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URL éditeur |
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/workorgalaboglob.14.1.0067?refreqid=excelsior%3Ade7e71ae9cc7e742f209b5bec6f7016d#metadata_info_tab_contents
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Nom de la revue |
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Audience |
Internationale
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Date de publication |
2020
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Volume |
14
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Numéro |
1
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Page/Identifiant |
67-82
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Financement |
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Mots-clés |
en
Micro-work, digital platforms, labour statistics
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DOI | 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.14.1.0067 |
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