OII | As More Work Moves Online, The Threat of ‘Digital Sweatshops’ Looms

Published on
22 Mar 2016

Mark Graham talks about some of the early findings of research on how the internet is shifting work patterns in south east Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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