Counting ‘micro-workers’: societal and methodological challenges around new forms of labour

• Published in: IDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc
• Main Authors: Tubaro, Paola, Clément Le Ludec, Casilli, Antonio
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 01.01.2020

'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 qualitat...