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Oct 2021
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Primer: Microworking for the Weekend

JACOBIN
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We're back! This week, we speak with Phil Jones, author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism, a new book from Verso Books. Jones is also a researcher for the think tank Autonomy.


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