Workers from historically marginalized populations are an increasingly important, but not-
well-understood, set of participants in the narratives being developed about the many …

We advance the concept of deconstructed identity to explain how online workers' identities
are being reshaped, diminished and controlled by digital labor platforms. We focus on online …

We contribute empirical and conceptual insights regarding the roles of digital labor platforms
in online freelancing, focusing attention to social identities such as gender, race, ethnicity …

Digital platforms provide many workers with vital income and offer the promise of flexible
work, and yet also contribute to experiences of precariousness and exploitation, particularly …

Advancements in digital technologies have set the stage for corporations in the Global North
to drive down their labor costs by outsourcing work to the Global South. Burdened by …

Algorithmic management, decentralized workforces, and on-demand labor models have
deeply shifted traditional employment relationships. These technologies have concerning …

Online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), Uber, and TaskRabbit are
contributing to rapid changes in the nature of work for hundreds of thousands of workers …

Platform workers face the paradox of skill building: they bear full responsibility for
addressing increasingly intricate, unpredictable, and undervalued skilling demands, while …

While the working lives of tech entrepreneurs and delivery platform workers seem far
removed, both are engaged in digital labor. What unites their experience and allows us to …

Online platforms not only serve to exchange information and goods but increasingly also
service work provided by the self‐employed. The emergence of crowdsourcing of paid work …