Humans and Machines at Work: Monitoring, Surveillance and Automation in Contemporary Capitalism - Softcover
Book 10 of 21: Dynamics of Virtual Work
Synopsis
1. Introduction.- 2. Digitalisation of work and resistance.- 3. Deep automation and the world of work.- 4. There is only one thing in life worse than being watched, and that is not being watched.- 5. The electronic monitoring of care work - the redefinition of paid working time.- 6. Social recruiting: control and surveillance in a digitised job market.- 7. Close watch of a distant manager.- 8. Hawthorne's renewal: Quantified total self.- 9. 'Putting it together, that's what counts'.- 10. Technologies of control, communication, and calculation.
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