Humans and Machines at Work Monitoring, Surveillance and Automation in Contemporary Capitalism /
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 worke...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Series: | Dynamics of Virtual Work
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| ISBN: | 9783319582320 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Digitalisation of work and resistance
- 3. Deep automation and the world of work
- 4. There is only one thing in life worse than being watched, and that is not being watched
- 5. The electronic monitoring of care work - the redefinition of paid working time
- 6. Social recruiting: control and surveillance in a digitised job market
- 7. Close watch of a distant manager
- 8. Hawthorne's renewal: Quantified total self
- 9. 'Putting it together, that's what counts'
- 10. Technologies of control, communication, and calculation.