Augmented Exploitation
Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work
$73.06
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
20 March 2021
Summary
Artificial Intelligence is a seemingly neutral technology, but it is increasingly used to manage workforces and make decisions to hire and fire employees. Its proliferation in the workplace gives the impression of a fairer, more efficient system of management. A machine can’t discriminate, after all.
Augmented Exploitation explores the reality of the impact of AI on workers’ lives. While the consensus is that AI is a completely new way of managing a workplace, the authors sho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745343495 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 074534349X |
| Author: | Jamie Woodcock, Phoebe Moore |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Imprint: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 20 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 209g |
| Dimensions: | 135mm x 215mm |
| Series: | Wildcat |
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Critics Review
‘Brings together a range of unmissable views across the contemporary spectrum of technology-driven labour relations’
– Dr. Ivan Williams Jimenez, Policy and Development Manager at the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, UK‘A path-breaking book offering unparalleled insights. Moore and Woodcock re-affirm their position as leaders in this field’
– Premilla D’Cruz, Professor of Organizational Behaviour Area, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA)Jamie Woodcock
Phoebe Moore is Associate Professor of Political Economy and Technology based at the University of Leicester School of Business and a Research Fellow at the Social Science Center Berlin (WZB). Her most recent book is The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts (Routledge, 2018).
Jamie Woodcock is a researcher based in London. He is the author of The Gig Economy (Polity Press, 2019), Marx at the Arcade (Haymarket, 2019), and Working The Phones (Pluto, 2016). His research focuses on labour, work, the gig economy, platforms, resistance, organising, and videogames.
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