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Agent-Based Modelling of Worker Exploitation - Slave from the Machine (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Agent-Based Modelling of Worker Exploitation - Slave from the Machine (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research, 5
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This book illustrates the potential for computer simulation in the
study of modern slavery and worker abuse, and by extension in all
social issues. It lays out a philosophy of how agent-based
modelling can be used in the social sciences. In addressing modern
slavery, Chesney considers precarious work that is vulnerable to
abuse, like sweat-shop labour and prostitution, and shows how agent
modelling can be used to study, understand and fight abuse in these
areas. He explores the philosophy, application and practice of
agent modelling through the popular and free software NetLogo. This
topical book is grounded in the technology needed to address the
messy, chaotic, real world problems that humanity faces-in this
case the serious problem of abuse at work-but equally in the social
sciences which are needed to avoid the unintended consequences
inherent to human responses. It includes a short but extensive
NetLogo guide which readers can use to quickly learn this software
and go on to develop complex models. This is an important book for
students and researchers of computational social science and others
interested in agent-based modelling.
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