Humans and Machines at Work Monitoring, Surveillance and Automation in Contemporary Capitalism /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Moore, Phoebe V. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Upchurch, Martin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Whittaker, Xanthe (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Dynamics of Virtual Work
• Subjects: Industrial sociology.; Digital media.; Economic sociology.; Technology-Sociological aspects.; Computer security.; Social policy.; Sociology of Work.; Digital/New Media.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Science and Technology Studies.; Privacy.; Social Policy.

In 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 worke...

Table of Contents:

• 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.