内容简介
In the spirit of Nickel and Dimed, a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web—and that foreshadows the true future of work. Hidden beneath the surface of the web, lost in our wrong-headed debates about AI, a new menace is looming. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force. These people doing "ghost work" make the internet seem smart. They perform high-tech piecework: flagging X-rated content, proofreading, designing engine parts, and much more. An estimated 8 percent of Americans have worked at least once in this “ghost economy,” and that number is growing. They usually earn less than legal minimums for traditional work, they have no health benefits, and they can be fired at any time for any reason, or none. There are no labor laws to govern this kind of work, and these latter-day assembly lines draw in—and all too often overwork and underpay—a surprisingly diverse range of workers: harried young mothers, professionals forced into early retirement, recent grads who can’t get a toehold on the traditional employment ladder, and minorities shut out of the jobs they want. Gray and Suri also show how ghost workers, employers, and society at large can ensure that this new kind of work creates opportunity—rather than misery—for those who do it.
作者简介
玛丽·L. 格雷（Mary L. Gray）
人类学家、微软研究院新英格兰实验室高级研究员、哈佛大学伯克曼·克莱因互联网与社会中心研究员。现于美国印第安纳大学信息、计算与工程学院任教，并从属于传媒学院、人类学系和性别研究系，2020年度麦克阿瑟奖获得者。玛丽的研究着眼于技术获取、物质条件和技术的日常 使用如何改变人们的生活。
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西达尔特·苏里（Siddharth Suri）
计算机科学家、美国宾夕法尼亚大学计算机与信息科学博士、微软人工智能研究中心高级研究员、微软纽约研究中心创始成员。苏里的兴趣主要为计算机科学、行为经济学和众包经济的跨学科研究。
Ghost Work是2019年由EamonDolan/HoughtonMifflinHarcourt出版,作者MaryLGray。
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