Algorithmic Antagonism
Algorithmic Control, Precarity and Resistance in China's Food-Delivery Platform Economy
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Beschreibung
This book provides a critical examination of how artificial intelligence and algorithmic management are transforming labour relations in the platform economy, with a focus on food-delivery workers in China. By combining ethnographic research with labour process theory, it reveals the hidden mechanisms of digital labour control and the ways workers resist algorithmic exploitation in an era of technological dominance. This book will interest scholars of the platform gig economy, of Chinese labor issues, and of the sociology of AI.
Hui Huang is a Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Also, he is sociologist specializing in the work precarity, gig economy and digital labour.
This book provides a critical examination of how artificial intelligence and algorithmic management are transforming labour relations in the platform economy, with a focus on food-delivery workers in China. By combining ethnographic research with labour process theory, it reveals the hidden mechanisms of digital labour control and the ways workers resist algorithmic exploitation in an era of technological dominance. This book will interest scholars of the platform gig economy, of Chinese labor issues, and of the sociology of AI.
explores China's platform economy provides a glimpse of how AI interacts with Chinese society analyzes the ways workers rebel against algorithms
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Hui Huang
Themen in »Algorithmic Antagonism«
algorithmic capitalism chinese economy gig economy platform capitalism caste system