Turker

See also: turker

English

Alternative forms

• turker

Etymology

Ellipsis of Amazon Mechanical Turk + -er; the Amazon service is named for the Mechanical Turk of 1770–1854.

Noun

Turker (plural Turkers)

1. A person who does small tasks as part of the Amazon Mechanical Turk service.

   Synonym: Mechanical Turker

   • 2019, Steven Greenhouse, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor, Anchor, →ISBN, page 223:

     LaPlante disputes the notion that Turkers and other crowdsourcing workers are desperate folks working out of their parents basement. “Most Turkers are very educated, and they choose to do this,” she said.

Related terms

• Turking