Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work

By Alex Rosenblat. 2018

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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The Society of Algorithms (2021, background): “…schedules, suffocating surveillance, constant high-stakes reviews, and unstable wages—(Dubal 2017, Duffy 2020, Gregg 2018, Kalleberg & Vallas 2018, Levy & Barocas 2018, Rosenblat 2019, Schor 2020) leads to a host of social pathologies, including negative health outcomes (Schneider & Harknett 2019).”
‘I’m my own boss…’: Active intermediation and ‘entrepreneurial’ worker agency in the Australian gig-economy (2020, background): “Mirroring the historical expansion of temporary staffing (Peck et al., 2005), platforms are simultaneously creating and shaping the markets they intermediate, acting as ‘active intermediaries’ (Attoh et al., 2019; Rosenblat, 2019).”
Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship: Implications for Venture Creation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (2020, background): “…for drivers by providing algorithmically determined transport routes; it has been found instead to be directing drivers on certain routes to collect road data, and its upfront pricing model is intended solely to increase profits for the company at the expense of the drivers ( Rosenblat, 2018).”
Algorithms at Work: The New Contested Terrain of Control (2020, background): “For instance, most online marketplaces and online labor markets, such as Amazon, Craigslist, and Upwork (Rahman, 2018); Ebay (Curchod et al., 2019); Uber and Lyft (Rosenblat, 2018); Airbnb (Jharver et al., 2018); and TripAdvisor (Orlikowski & Scott, 2014), and most online health communities (Barrett”