THE NEW WEB SLAVES, AMAZON’S MECHANICAL TURK

How the Internet giants are circumventing labour legislation

Synopsis

The giants of the net have found a simple way to circumvent labor laws: they have invented the micro-jobs. Simple tasks with minimal wages, i.e. a few cents without the paperwork.

A trick that allows them to bypass the labor laws regardless of the country of origin of the employer, and which takes its inspiration from an 18th-century fraud called the "Mechanical Turk".