I don't have any citations, but I would venture most people working on these platforms do it because they need extra money. Nobody quits his day job to drive pe

I don't have any citations, but I would venture most people working on these platforms do it because they need extra money. Nobody quits his day job to drive people around in Uber or to spend 8 hours a day in Amazon turk. Most of these startups try to create a monopoly at the level of the platform, but force workers to compete against each other, undermining solidarity between them that facilitates an unfair exchange