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4. Institutionalizing Crowdwork as a Mode of Employment: The Case of Crowdworkers in Nigeria

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Abstract

Crowdwork is one type of crowdsourcing of work enabled by digital platforms and the global widespread of Internet connectivity. While employers find it a model of sourcing temporary labor to perform specific tasks with light employment obligations, recent statistics show that workers increasingly adopt it as a model of full-time long-term employment. This study examines workers’ lived experience to uncover how workers adopt crowdwork as a model of full-time employment. It does so in the context of a developing country in Africa—in particular, Nigeria—where international organizations and governments particularly find it holding potential to reduce the serious unemployment problems in these countries. Through an inductive research process, the theoretical lens of institutional work emerges as a plausible explanation of the research findings. It shows that crowdworkers in the context of Nigeria create full-time long-term employment of crowdwork through five interlinked strategies that mediate between the constraints of their existing institutions and their need to sustain crowdwork employment.

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Metadaten
Titel
Institutionalizing Crowdwork as a Mode of Employment: The Case of Crowdworkers in Nigeria
verfasst von
Ayomikun Idowu
Amany Elbanna
Copyright-Jahr
2021
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
Buch
New Ways of Working

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-61686-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-61687-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61687-8_4

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