Pre-Automation: Insourcing and Automating the Gig Economy
This paper examines a strategic configuration in the technology, logistics, and robotics industries that we call “pre-automation”: when emerging platform monopolies employ large, outsourced labor forces while simultaneously investing in developing the tools to replace these workers with in-house mac...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Bologna
2021-01-01
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Series: | Sociologica |
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Online Access: | https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/11657 |