Who are these shadow workers?
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 8:37 am
Vague contractualization, piecework pay, bargaining, piecework – observing the situation of these “forced laborers” of the digital revolution, one would think one was in a Charles Dickens novel, at the beginning of the 19th century industrial revolution, where labor power could be exploited without a legislative framework. Even then, it was promised to “ replace human labor with machines ,” a promise that was not kept, and was reiterated during the 3rd industrial revolution.
Antonio Casilli notes that, " since the 90s, the gambling data uae achievements of our salary situation have been [again] disrupted ". The status of self-employed and other "independent" contracts, widely exploited in the digital revolution, result " in a balance of power between worker and boss that is once again out of balance, in contradiction with the modern employment contract ". A situation that takes us back to a time before labor law, before the labor code, and the employment contract.
Their names are Bilel, Zlat, Nathalie, Nomena, Ny Kanto, Amélie, Chris, Édouard and they live in Lyon, Barcelona, Dublin or Antananarivo. The portraits drawn in the films differ depending on the country of origin, the personal situation, factors that vary the degree of their precariousness . Young men under 30 for on-demand services, working women with children for micro-tasks, complex and interdependent stories that are at the heart of this new world that we inhabit today. In emerging countries, with low average wages, we pay very little for micro-jobs.
Antonio Casilli notes that, " since the 90s, the gambling data uae achievements of our salary situation have been [again] disrupted ". The status of self-employed and other "independent" contracts, widely exploited in the digital revolution, result " in a balance of power between worker and boss that is once again out of balance, in contradiction with the modern employment contract ". A situation that takes us back to a time before labor law, before the labor code, and the employment contract.
Their names are Bilel, Zlat, Nathalie, Nomena, Ny Kanto, Amélie, Chris, Édouard and they live in Lyon, Barcelona, Dublin or Antananarivo. The portraits drawn in the films differ depending on the country of origin, the personal situation, factors that vary the degree of their precariousness . Young men under 30 for on-demand services, working women with children for micro-tasks, complex and interdependent stories that are at the heart of this new world that we inhabit today. In emerging countries, with low average wages, we pay very little for micro-jobs.