Your Boss Is an Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour - Softcover

Antonio Aloisi; Valerio De Stefano

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509953183 ISBN 13: 9781509953189

Publisher: Hart Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

What effect do robots, algorithms, and online platforms have on the world of work? Using case studies and examples from across the EU, the UK, and the US, this book provides a compass to navigate this technological transformation as well as the regulatory options available, and proposes a new map for the era of radical digital advancements.

From platform work to the gig-economy and the impact of artificial intelligence, algorithmic management, and digital surveillance on workplaces, technology has overwhelming consequences for everyone’s lives, reshaping the labour market and straining social institutions. Contrary to preliminary analyses forecasting the threat of human work obsolescence, the book demonstrates that digital tools are more likely to replace managerial roles and intensify organisational processes in workplaces, rather than opening the way for mass job displacement.

Can flexibility and protection be reconciled so that legal frameworks uphold innovation? How can we address the pervasive power of AI-enabled monitoring? How likely is it that the gig-economy model will emerge as a new organisational paradigm across sectors? And what can social partners and political players do to adopt effective regulation?

Technology is never neutral. It can and must be governed, to ensure that progress favours the many. Digital transformation can be an essential ally, from the warehouse to the office, but it must be tested in terms of social and political sustainability, not only through the lenses of economic convenience. Your Boss Is an Algorithm offers a guide to explore these new scenarios, their promises, and perils.

About this title

About the Author

Antonio Aloisi is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow and Assistant Professor of European and Comparative Labour Law at IE Law School, Madrid, Spain. Valerio De Stefano is Associate Professor with tenure at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada.

From the Back Cover

Robots, algorithms, and online platforms are changing the world of work. Using case studies and examples from the UK, EU, and US, this book provides a compass to navigate this transformation. Can flexibility and legal protection be reconciled to uphold innovation? How likely is it that the gig-economy model will emerge as a new organisational paradigm across sectors? How can we address the pervasive power of AI-enabled monitoring? What can social partners and political players do to adopt effective regulation?



The book offers a guide to explore these new scenarios, their promises, and perils, and the regulatory options available.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509953183
• ISBN 13: 9781509953189
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240