Your Boss Is an Algorithm : Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour (Paperback)

Prologue 1. What Future for Work? 1. Keep Calm, the Reports of the 'End of Work' Are Greatly Exaggerated 1.1. The 'Robocalypse' Is Adjourned to a Later Date 2. Digital is Political: A New Mission for the 'Human in Command' 2. The Transformations of Work 1. The Consequences for the 'Work That Is Left' 2. Technology at Work 2.1. Robots and Industry: Intelligent Machines Enter the Factory 2.2. Remote Work: Home and Shop. Out of Hours and Out of Place 2.3. Selective Affinity: The Instant Matching of Supply and Demand 3. Work at the Service of Technology 3.1. 'People Are Numbers': Human Resources and Workforce Analytics 3.2. Your Boss Is an Algorithm 3.3. Not Everything That Is Intelligent Is Artificial 3. Rights in the Digital Age 1. What Do We Talk About When We Say 'Platform Work' (and Why Do We Talk About It So Much) 2. Doublespeak and the Spirit of Sharing: 'What Is Mine Is Yours' 2.1. Workers on Tap and Insatiable Appetites 2.2. Paradigmatic Platform: The Master-Server Dialectic 2.3. Brussels Calls to Say: Delivery Was Successful 3. Labour Regulation between Obsolescence and Resistance 3.1. A False Alternative between Protection and Flexibility 3.2. Towards a Universal Model of Protection for Modern Times? 3.3. The Big Family of Non-Standard Forms of Employment Conclusions: A Job Well Done 1. Social Law as a Future-Proof Toolkit 1.1. Universal Basic Income and the Sustainability of Radical Measures 1.2. Collective Autonomy vs Digital Despotism: Negotiating the Algorithm 1.3. And They Lived Happy and Connected: Saving the Digital Transformation from Itself