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Invisibles: Clickworkers

March 26, 2021

Services from Amazon, Uber and Airbnb are available at the touch of a screen. Yet who are the workers who fulfill our wishes when we click? How much do they earn? Do their jobs have benefits?

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This documentary delves into the world of workers behind the apps.

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Image: picture-alliance/dpa/S. Jaitner


Companies like Facebook, Amazon, Deliveroo, Booking.com and Tinder all have in common that their employees are forming a new, exploited class of digital economy labor. The tens of thousands of people who work in the app sector earn low wages.

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The filmmakers look at the daily lives of "clickworkers" - the men and women who deliver packages and food, or work high-stress content management jobs for little money.



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