Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
There is a significant amount of hidden labour behind data, algorithms, search engines and social platforms. It is usually poorly paid, precarious, and psychologically damaging. The question of who does this work is hugely complicated. Most of it takes place in the global south, in refugee camps, slums, prisons and in occupied territories.
Phil Jones is the author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism - a book that explains the brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work versobooks.com/books/3869-work-without-the-worker?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=work_without_the_worker&utm_content=tech_video
There is a significant amount of hidden labour behind data, algorithms, search engines and social platforms. It is usually poorly paid, precarious, and psychologically damaging. The question of who does this work is hugely complicated. Most of it takes place in the global south, in refugee camps, slums, prisons and in occupied territories.
Phil Jones is the author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism - a book that explains the brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work versobooks.com/books/3869-work-without-the-worker?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=work_without_the_worker&utm_content=tech_video
