{"product_id":"humans-and-machines-at-work-monitoring-surveillance-and-automation-in-contemporary-capitalism-9783319863542","title":"Humans and Machines at Work: Monitoring, Surveillance and Automation in Contemporary Capitalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Phoebe V. Moore\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the era of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution, we increasingly work with machines in both cognitive and manual workplaces. This collection provides a series of accounts of workers' local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work's digitalisation. Precarious gig economy workers ride bikes and drive taxis in China and Britain; domestic workers' timekeeping and movements are documented; call centre workers in India experience invasive tracking but creative forms of worker subversion are evident; warehouse workers discover that hidden data has been used for layoffs; academic researchers see their labour obscured by a 'data foam' that does not benefit them; and journalists suffer the algorithmic curse. These cases are couched in historical accounts of identity and selfhood experiments seen in the Hawthorne experiments and the lineage of automation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection will appeal to scholars in the Sociology of Work and Digital Labour Studies and anyone interested in lea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003erning about monitoring and surveillance, automation, the gig economy and the quantified self in the workplace.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45274575405207,"sku":"9783319863542","price":6243.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783319863542.webp?v=1769280337","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/humans-and-machines-at-work-monitoring-surveillance-and-automation-in-contemporary-capitalism-9783319863542","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}