计算“微型工人”:围绕新劳动形式的社会和方法挑战

Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.13169/workorgalaboglob.14.1.0067

Paola Tubaro, Clément Le Ludec, Antonio A. Casilli

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摘要

“微工作”是由无数供应商在在线平台上执行的碎片化数据任务组成的。虽然对基于数据的技术的发展至关重要，但这种很少可见且地理上分散的活动特别难以衡量。为了填补这一空白，我们将定性和定量方法(在线调查、深度访谈、捕获-再捕获技术和网络流量分析)结合起来，对法国一个国家的微型工作者进行了统计。在此分析的基础上，我们估计大约有26万人注册了微工作平台。其中约有5万人是“常规”员工，他们至少每月做一些琐碎的工作，我们推测，使用更严格的“非常活跃”员工衡量标准，这一数字将减少到1.5万人。这一分析有助于研究平台劳动和人工智能背后的数字经济中的劳动。

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

'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 qualitative and quantitative methods (online surveys, in-depth interviews, capture-recapture techniques, and web traffic analytics) to count micro-workers in a single country, France. On the basis of this analysis, we estimate that approximately 260,000 people are registered with micro-work platforms. Of these some 50,000 are 'regular' workers who do micro-tasks at least monthly and we speculate that using a more restrictive measure of 'very active' workers decreases this figure to 15,000. This analysis contributes to research on platform labour and the labour in the digital economy that lies behind artificial intelligence.

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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Business, Management and Accounting-Industrial Relations

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期刊介绍： Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation aims to: -Provide a single home for articles which specifically address issues relating to the changing international division of labour and the restructuring of work in a global knowledge-based economy. -Bring together the results of empirical research, both qualitative and quantitative, with theoretical analyses in order to inform the development of new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the restructuring of work, organisational structures and labour in a global context. -Be global in scope, with a particular emphasis on attracting contributions from developing countries as well as from Europe, North America and other developed regions. -Encourage a dialogue between university-based researchers and their counterparts in international and national government agencies, independent research institutes, trade unions and civil society as well as other policy makers. Subject to the requirements of scholarly peer review, it is open to submissions from contributors working outside the academic sphere and encourages an accessible style of writing in order to facilitate this goal. -Complement, rather than compete with, existing discipline-based journals. -Bring to the attention of English-speaking readers relevant articles originally published in other languages.