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Resilience through resistance: the role of worker agency in navigating algorithmic control [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial IntelligenceIntroductionThe business model of multi-sided digital labor platforms relies on maintaining a balance between workers and customers or clients to sustain operations. These platforms initially leveraged venture capital to attract workers by providing them
Morgan Williams, Uma Rani
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Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2022 Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe ...
Benlian, Alexander +7 more
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Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 2022 The use of algorithms systems that manage employees is now common in many industries. Trucking is no exception since freight companies need sophisticated systems to comply with legal obligations regarding driving time limitations.
Antoine Bujold +2 more
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Algorithmic management in a work context
Big Data & Society, 2021 The rapid development of machine-learning algorithms, which underpin contemporary artificial intelligence systems, has created new opportunities for the automation of work processes and management functions. While algorithmic management has been observed
Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi +5 more
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Artificial Intelligence and algorithmic solutions in the social sphere: youth attitudes
Социологическая наука и социальная практика, 2023 Over the past decade, the diffusion of digital innovations among the youth has been advancing at an accelerated pace. The article presents an analysis of the youth’s attitude towards the idea of using social ratings as one of the applications of ...
Mikhail M. Nazarov
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Labour & Law Issues, 2022 The essay is inspired by the comparison between the Proposal for a Directive on improving working conditions in platform work, presented by the European Commission on 9 December 2021, and the Draft Report of the European Parliament (Rapporteur, E ...
Anna Alaimo
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The EU Commission’s proposal for a Directive on Platform Work: an overview
Italian Labour Law e-Journal, 2022 This article discusses the proposal for the EU Directive on Platform Work. While welcoming the proposal advanced by the Commission, it highlights some of its shortcomings and suggests more robust protection both for the draft Chapter on the presumption ...
Valerio De Stefano
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Disguising Exploitation. Immigrants in the Ecuadorian Gig Economy
Trilogía Ciencia Tecnología Sociedad, 2023 Ecuador is home to approximately 556,000 immigrants, mostly from Venezuela (65%) and Colombia (25%), many of whom have an irregular immigration status.
María Belén Albornoz, Henry Chavez
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Hunger for profit: how food delivery platforms manage couriers in China
Sociologias, 2021 How do food delivery platform firms, such as Meituan (operated by Tencent) and Ele.me (owned by Alibaba), manage couriers through service contracting rather than formal employment? How do couriers experience control and autonomy at work?
Jenny Chan
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Andamiajes y derivas: la mediación algorítmica en la práctica de los riders
EMPIRIA: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales, 2023 Existe un creciente interés en el ámbito de las ciencias sociales por el estudio de fenómenos relacionados con la denominada gig economy o economía de plataformas y, entre ellos, por la figura del rider, un término que alude a los repartidores de ...
Montserrat Cañedo Rodríguez +1 more
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