The Digital Factory by Moritz Altenried - 9780226815497

The Digital FactoryThe Human Labor of Automation\nAuthor(s): Moritz Altenried\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226815497, 978-0226815497\nSynopsis\nThe Digital Factory reveals the hidden human labor that supports todays digital capitalism.\n The workers of todays digital factory include those in Amazon warehouses, delivery drivers, Chinese gaming workers, Filipino content moderators, and rural American search engine optimizers. Repetitive yet stressful, boring yet often emotionally demanding, these jobs require little formal qualification, but can demand a large degree of skills and knowledge. This work is often hidden behind the supposed magic of algorithms and thought to be automated, but it is in fact highly dependent on human labor.\n The workers of todays digital factory are not as far removed from a typical auto assembly line as we might think. Moritz Altenried takes us inside todays.