Amazon Mechanical Turk is a website that allows companies to post jobs for online workers. These workers perform tasks by computer at home and receive a payment for completing each task. The payment ...

Shamik Ghosh had been picking up tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk for several months when he logged on in winter 2010 and saw a perplexing request: Someone wanted him to act out a series of Winter ...

If you are looking for legitimate part-time employment, Amazon Mechanical Turk can certainly be that, but it will take work to learn how to turk efficiently. To each her own, but completing hundreds ...

Technology has helped rid the American economy of many of the routine, physical, low-paid jobs that characterized the workplace of the last century. Gone are the women who sewed garments for pennies, ...

Joan wears her hair in a loose bun skewered by shiny black chopsticks to keep it out of her eyes while she’s working. She’s been living in Houston since 2011, when she returned to care for her 81-year ...

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The promise of the gig economy—that it would empower workers to be their own bosses, liberate them from tyrannical office culture, and let creative types chase their dreams while maintaining a side ...

Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign hired gig workers using Amazon Mechanical Turk, a platform that's infamous for low pay, despite Buttigieg's campaign promise to improve pay and protections for ...