crowdwork

noun, verb — 3 senses

crowdwork

noun

Etymology From crowd + work.

1

Crowdsourced work.

2

The process or an instance of working the crowd.

Stand-up comedy

His set usually includes a few minutes of crowdwork.

crowdwork

verb

Etymology From crowd + work.

1

To perform crowdsourced work.

In both the Global North and the Global South, women reported more frequently than men that they crowdworked because they preferred to, or could only, work from home. In particular, the response 'can only work from home' had a ten percentage-point difference between women and men in the Global South (17 per cent for women versus 7 per cent for men) and an eight percentage-point difference in the Global North (13 percent for women versus 5 per cent for men).2021 November 19, Janine Berg, Uma Rani, “Working conditions, geography and gender in global crowdwork”, in Work and Labour Relations in Global Platform Capitalism, Geneva: Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 97 from 93 to 110:

Related terms: crowdworker, crowdworking

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