The Dystopian Digital Sweatshop That Makes the Internet Run | Alternet
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a workforce deployed by billion-dollar brands like Microsoft, eBay and Twitter – a workforce that has no entitlement to basic benefits, and is paid an hourly wage of approximately $1.20. They’re the products and the projected future of corporate outsourcing, but they’re not based in Chinese factories or Indian call centers. They’re working at their home computers, in the US, right now. We depend on their labor to navigate the Internet and make our lives easier.
Microtasking is a fast-growing industry that is expected to take a significant chunk of the $400 billion made annually by the global outsourcing market.