microlabor
Noun
A type of employment characterized by short-term or piecework jobs that are part of a larger project in which the worker is not involved.
Usage- Uncountable
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Similarly, the State's agriculture has a series of microlabor markets. Some crops and areas have ample supplies of mostly legal harvest workers, for example, lettuce and grapes use mostly legal harvest workers.
Crowdsourcing and other types of distributed work or microlabor are likely to increase in frequency in the years to come.
Content moderation as microlabor digital piecework has been perhaps an obvious site of expansion for globally networked microlabor websites.
Word forms
micro-labormicrolabourmicro-labour