This book is about the world of high-tech tasks-for-hire companies (aka crowdworking platforms), which offer low-paying work in the form of small tasks to be done online. The conditions Work Without the Worker described for workers who depend on this “clickwork” sound like something out of a cyberpunk dystopia, once again bringing to mind the William Gibson quote “the future is already here, just not evenly distributed….” Describes the ways that gig work platforms breaking “skilled” or “professional” jobs down into discrete tasks transmutes them into “unskilled” labor. I was surprised how much work we assume is being done by algorithms &/or AI is actually done by online gig workers. I was more surprised at how much of this work is done by actual prisoners & refugees. I liked the utopian possibilities hinted at in the conclusion.