"By now we have become so accustomed to reports of exploitation of gig workers that it is almost quaint to think back to the mid-2000s when Big Tech marketed the gig economy as unshackling workers from the scrutiny of micromanaging bosses while bringing entrepreneurship to the masses."
Indeed.
He also discusses our report, by former Amazon delivery driver Adrienne Williams, Alex Hanna (npub1e2z…n97d) & Sandra L. Barcenas Fuerte, on Amazon's wage theft through surveillance..
https://www.dair-institute.org/projects/driven-down/
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
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2026-01-07 17:58:55 GMT
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