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An investigation into design-related labor forms particularly addressing issues of precarity, spec. jobbing, and working conditions of the web.
Research into design-related labor forms particularly addressing issues of precariousness, spec. jobbing, and working conditions of the web.
 


== Chapter I) The rise of the global day-laborer and how the crowd was dispersed ==
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The crowd has been dispersed. Individuals engage in sporadic fights to conquer the glorified bounty (usually 299$) - the winner takes it all. A new hybrid of day-laborers emerges, eager peers, ready for instant action, production. Used on demand, paid occasionally.  
The crowd has been dispersed. Individuals engage in sporadic fights to conquer the glorified bounty (usually 299$) - the winner takes it all. A new hybrid of day-laborers emerges, eager peers, ready for instant action, production. Used on demand, paid occasionally.  




== Chapter II) Pleasures of Performing ==
== Chapter II) Pleasures of Performing ==
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Workers of the Web

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Research into design-related labor forms particularly addressing issues of precariousness, spec. jobbing, and working conditions of the web.

Chapter I) The rise of the global day-laborer and how the crowd was dispersed

99designs - crowdsourcing design

99designs is a crowdsourcing design-service where +200000 designers from around the world freely compete in client-based design contests. There's a wide variety of competitions offered ranging from Logos, illustration, web- and app-design, merchendice, packaging and others. Competitors to 99design offer the same service.


Logo 99designs 01.png logo_choosa.net_01.png logo_designcrowd_01.png logo_12designer_01.png logo_crowdspring.com_01.png

Structure of competition

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One contest with many peers competing against each other. Most contests and design-entries are publicly visible, and competition and plagerism are immanent, and deeply rooted in the system.

http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-f%C3%BCr-die-neue-bewertungsplattform-family-score-228999

http://99designs.com/logo-business-card-design/contests/create-next-logo-business-card-octivi-228991

Comrades of the screen! Join forces

Classic, dreamy, utopic workers-union-approach: gather against the oppressors!

VIDEO of spamming


The rise of the global day-laborer and how the crowd was dispersed

Depending on how a technology is wielded the outcome can be dramatically different. In the case of 99designs the essential technology of communication, the web, does not gather the crowd in the struggle against the oppressors. Rather it thrives on the physical and geopolitical separation amongst the participating designers.

The crowd has been dispersed. Individuals engage in sporadic fights to conquer the glorified bounty (usually 299$) - the winner takes it all. A new hybrid of day-laborers emerges, eager peers, ready for instant action, production. Used on demand, paid occasionally.


Chapter II) Pleasures of Performing

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