microlabor

alternative micro-labor · alternative microlabour · alternative micro-labour

1. uncountableA type of employment characterized by short-term or piecework jobs that are part of a larger project in which the worker is not involved.

   Crowdsourcing and other types of distributed work or microlabor are likely to increase in frequency in the years to come.

   2016, Marion Crain, Winifred Poster, Miriam Cherry, Invisible Labor: Hidden Work in the Contemporary World, →ISBN, page 77

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   Similarly, the State's agriculture has a series of microlabor markets. Some crops and areas have ample supplies of mostly legal harvest workers, for example, lettuce and grapes use mostly legal harvest workers.

   1982, The H-2 Program and Nonimmigrants

   Content moderation as microlabor digital piecework has been perhaps an obvious site of expansion for globally networked microlabor websites.

   2019, Sarah T. Roberts, Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media, →ISBN