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Turking for a Living: The World of Amazon's Marketplace for Work

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March 20, 2015

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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourced marketplace that allows people (turkers) to complete small tasks that computers cannot, such as transcribing an audio recording or flagging inappropriate photos for a social network. These turkers represent the Wild West of the crowdsourcing workforce—anything goes. Here, we look beyond the online platform and delve into their world.

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Turking for a Living: The World of Amazon's Marketplace for Work

Producer: Bassam Tariq

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