AUGMENTED EXPLOITATION: Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work

with editors Phoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock

and three working guests who work at jobs being altered by the Interpretation Machines of Artificial Intelligence

Augmented Exploitation explores the reality of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on workers’ lives. Going beyond platform work and the gig economy, the authors explore emerging forms of algorithmic governance and AI-augmented apps that have been developed to utilize innovative ways to collect data about workers and consumers, as well as to keep wages and worker representation under control.

Going beyond platform work and the gig economy, the authors explore emerging forms of algorithmic governance and AI-augmented apps that have been developed to utilise innovative ways to collect data about workers and consumers, as well as to keep wages and worker representation under control. They also show that workers are not taking this lying down, providing case studies of new and exciting form of resistance that are springing up across the globe.

PHOEBE V. MOORE is Assoc Professor of the Futures of Work based at the University of Leicester School of Business and a Research Fellow at the Social Science Center Berlin (WZB). Her most recent book is The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts (Routledge, 2018). JAMIE WOODCOCK is a researcher based in London. He is the author of The Gig Economy (Polity Press, 2019), Marx at the Arcade (Haymarket, 2019), and Working The Phones (Pluto, 2016). His research focuses on labor, work, the gig economy, platforms, resistance, organizing, and videogames.

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