Algorithms are being deployed to automate managerial tasks in an increasingly wide variety of industries and settings. Amazon, Uber, and UPS, for example, use them to oversee the movements and ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisatio... The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates the conflictual nature ...

Aislinn Kelly-Lyth, formerly a researcher at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford, works at Blackstone Chambers in London. M. Six Silberman and Halefom Abraha are postdoctoral ...

If you think your manager treats you unfairly, the thought might have crossed your mind that replacing said boss with an unbiased machine that rewards performance based on objective data is a path to ...

Algorithms-as-managers keep seeping into our workplace landscape, creating work orders, handling timesheets, tracking performance, and other tasks. At this time, algorithmically managed jobs range ...

In this article we analyse the significance for critical logistics studies of a neglected chapter in industrial relations history, the introduction of so-called ‘Engineered Standards’ into the ...

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” HAL’s cold, if polite, refusal to open the pod bay doors in 2001: A Space Odyssey has become a defining warning about putting too much trust in ...

A not-for-profit set up by a former Uber driver who successfully challenged the ride-hailing giant’s misclassification of drivers’ employment status in the U.K. has published a timely report pressing ...