In search of the lost paycheck

Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 13-32

  Ross, Andrew ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84875490242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203145791     Document Type: Chapter

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