Who Measures the Value of Work? Artificial Intelligence and the New Transnational Job Precarity
By Nahima Dávalos-Vázquez. Over the last decade, the expansion of outsourcing companies, commonly known as digital labor platforms or talent clouds, has transformed how work is distributed and managed in the Global South. I met and accompanied the faces, bodies, and exhaustion of three remote workers during fieldwork for a digital and sensory ethnography. I followed their everyday life and registered their bodily and emotional states. What does it mean to work, to inhabit, and to resist in this new transregional scenario?