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