Humans and Machines at Work
Monitoring, Surveillance and Automation in Contemporary Capitalism
This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers’ local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work’s digitalisation. Precarious gig economy workers ride bikes and drive taxis in China and Britain; call centre workers in India experience invasive tracking; warehouse workers discover that hidden data has been used for layoffs; and academic researchers see their labour obscured by a ‘data foam’ that does not benefit them. These cases are couched in historical accounts of identity and selfhood experiments seen in the Hawthorne experiments and the lineage of automation. This book will appeal to scholars in the Sociology of Work and Digital Labour Studies and anyone interested in learning about monitoring and surveillance, automation, the gig economy and the quantified self in the workplace.
In the era of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution, we increasingly work with machines in both cognitive and manual workplaces. This collection provides a series of accounts of workers’ local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work’s digitalisation. Precarious gig economy workers ride bikes and drive taxis in China and Britain; domestic workers’ timekeeping and movements are documented; call centre workers in India experience invasive tracking but creative forms of worker subversion are evident; warehouse workers discover that hidden data has been used for layoffs; academic researchers see their labour obscured by a ‘data foam’ that does not benefit them; and journalists suffer the algorithmic curse. These cases are couched in historical accounts of identity and selfhood experiments seen in the Hawthorne experiments and the lineage of automation.This collection will appeal to scholars in the Sociology of Work and Digital Labour Studies and anyone interested in learning about monitoring and surveillance, automation, the gig economy and the quantified self in the workplace.
| ISBN: | 9783319863542 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Herausgeber: | Moore, Phoebe V. Upchurch, Martin Whittaker, Xanthe |
| Verlag: | Springer Nature EN |
| Veröffentlicht: | 14.08.2018 |
| Untertitel: | Monitoring, Surveillance and Automation in Contemporary Capitalism |
| Schlagworte: | B Central / national / federal government policies Computer security Digital/New Media Digital Media Digital and New Media Economic Sociology Industrial sociology Kommunal-, Regional- Landes und Lokalregierung Media studies: internet, digital media & society Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology Privacy Privacy & data protection Science and Technology Studies Social Policy Social Sciences Sociology Sociology: work & labour Sociology of Work Sozialwesen und soziale Dienste Technology—Sociological aspects |
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