Online labour markets: an inquiry into oDesk providers

Online labour markets: an inquiry into oDesk providers

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This study is an institutional ethnography of oDesk workers.The research makes use of an online questionnaire and semi-structured interviews to identify the ways in which the oDesk platform functions as the Keepsake Box medium and expression of the activities of online workers.I analyse the marketplace along the structural dimensions of visibility, community, and economics and conclude by arguing that these structures are recursively ordered through various Baseball Caps activities occurring as part of the contingent reproduction of the oDesk Marketplace.