Digital Working Lives: Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy by Christiaens, Tim

Digital Working Lives: Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781538173800)

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Digital Working Lives: Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy by Christiaens, Tim

Digital Working Lives: Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy

$40.95
Digital Working Lives: Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy by Christiaens, Tim

Digital Working Lives: Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy

$40.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Tim Christiaens
ISBN-10: 1538173808
ISBN-13: 9781538173800
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2024
Pages: 170
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d
By Tim Christiaens
By Tim Christiaens
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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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