Digital Working Lives

Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy

Digital Working Lives
Tim Christiaens
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 170pg
15 Nov 2022 US
9781538173732
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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.

Digital Working Lives: Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy

Tim Christiaens is a post-doctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven. His research focuses mainly on contemporary economic issues, such as financialization, socio-economic exclusion, and digitalization, viewed through Italian and French critical theory (Foucault, Deleuze, Agamben). Tim is a founding member of the Low Countries chapter of the Italian Thought Network and has been a visiting scholar at the Copenhagen Business School. 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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ISBN-13: 9781538173732
Published: 15 Nov 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Weight: 454g
Pages: 170

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