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Digital Working Lives: Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy (Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society) - Hardcover

Buch 7 von 8: Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society

Christiaens, Tim

 
9781538173732: Digital Working Lives: Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy (Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1538173735 ISBN 13: 9781538173732
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Recent innovations in digital technologies are fundamentally transforming the world of work. A digital gig economy is emerging that threatens to displace traditional labour relations based on legally regulated labour contracts. Companies like Uber, Deliveroo, or Amazon Mechanical Turk rely increasingly on 'independent contractors' who earn piece-rate wages by completing tasks sent to them via their smartphones. This development understandably pushes workers to desire more autonomy, but what would workers' autonomy mean in the digital age?

This book argues that the digital gig economy undermines workers' autonomy by putting digital technology in charge of workers' surveillance, leading to exploitation, alienation, and exhaustion. To secure a more sustainable future of work, digital technologies should instead be transformed into tools that support human development instead of subordinating it to algorithmic control. The best guarantee for human autonomy is a politics that transforms digital platforms into convivial tools that obey the rhythm of human life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Christiaens is assistant professor of economic ethics at the Department of Philosophy of Tilburg University in the Netherlands. His research focuses mainly on contemporary economic issues, such as financialization, socio-economic exclusion, and the digitalization of work, viewed through Italian and French critical theory (Foucault, post-workerism, Deleuze, Agamben). His research has been published in journals like Theory, Culture & Society, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Critical Sociology, and European Journal of Social Theory.

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Verlag
Rowman & Littlefield
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1538173735
ISBN 13 
9781538173732
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
170
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