Kristy Milland on Organized Resistance Against Digital Labor Subsistence at Mechanical Turk

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Worker's Voices 2 - From Digital Worker Subsistence to Organized Resistance:

"(19 mins) Kristy Milland, TurkerNation -- If Amazon Mechanical Turk (mTurk) were a boss, one would guess that it hated its employees. This has driven mTurk workers (Turkers) to fight back in a variety of ways, some of which may be useful to those fighting their own battles in other sectors. From rating customers to writing letters to awakening class consciousness to writing rules about what is ethical customer and platform behaviour, a variety of techniques are being tried in the attempt to make online work more bearable. A good work environment does not have to remain a dream, it can be something we realize together. I will take you from today’s mTurk to what online crowd platforms could be, so we can work together to fix the future of work."