Slaves of the Cyberworld
Description
It goes by many names-digital outsourcing, micropayment, or an assortment of other harmless monikers. But when the hungry and desperate supply round-the-clock online labor for pennies or nothing, the term "slavery" starts to gain validity. This program examines the issue on a global level as it reveals the human cost of exploitative Internet businesses. Viewers meet struggling Serbian camera slingers who supply image after image to avaricious stock photography sites; a French waitress trying to make ends meet as an online translator, despite earning only a fraction of the minimum wage; and Chinese teenagers who, after working brutally long shifts testing video games, wait for paychecks that may never come.
Runtime
54 min
Subjects
- Wealth (179)
- Power (Social sciences) (152)
- Cyberspace (95)
- Business ethics (382)
- Technology and law (23)
- Technology (1161)
- Management (2363)
- International business enterprises (261)
- Information society (81)
- Social classes (184)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2010], c2007
Database
Films on Demand
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