Overview
- Examines how new forms of surveillance are being adopted into contemporary work
- Draws from original empirical research engaging with existing and emerging fields of social enquiry
- Discusses the occurrence of surveillance and new forms of measure of work in a range of industries
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Dynamics of Virtual Work (DVW)
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This edited 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; call centre workers in India experience invasive tracking; warehouse workers discover that hidden data has been used for layoffs; and academic researchers see their labour obscured by a ‘data foam’ that does not benefit them. These cases are couched in
historical accounts of identity and selfhood experiments seen in the Hawthorne experiments and the lineage of automation. This book will appeal to scholars in the Sociology of Work and Digital Labour Studies and anyone interested in learning about monitoring and surveillance, automation, the gig economy and the quantified self in the workplace.Similar content being viewed by others
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“This book is a great read for anyone interested in learning about monitoring and surveillance of the workforce using digital technologies. This book will also appeal to scholars in the field of ethics in the workplace, sociology of work, and digital labor studies.” (Swatee B. Kulkarni, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 161, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Phoebe V. Moore works at Middlesex University London. She is an internationally known researcher and lecturer who writes about labour, technology and global governance.
Martin Upchurch is Professor of International Employment Relations at Middlesex University London. He has published more than 40 articles in the field of labour studies and industrial relations.
Xanthe Whittaker is a post-graduate student in the School of Management at the University of Leicester. Her doctoral research is an ethnographic study of digital journalism in the UK and her research interests include the digitalisation of work, atypical work, and labour process analysis.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Humans and Machines at Work
Book Subtitle: Monitoring, Surveillance and Automation in Contemporary Capitalism
Editors: Phoebe V. Moore, Martin Upchurch, Xanthe Whittaker
Series Title: Dynamics of Virtual Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58232-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58231-3Published: 18 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86354-2Published: 14 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58232-0Published: 06 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-9290
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9304
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 260
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Work, Digital/New Media, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, Privacy, Social Policy