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Algorithms at work

This shelf brings together articles, reports, and resources which explore the emergence of algorithmic management – the increasingly pervasive reliance on AI to monitor and control workers. It is curated by Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Professor of Law at Magdalen College, Oxford, and author of Humans as a Service: the Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy. IFOW have chosen select resources to complement the selection from Jeremias. We are keen to critically engage with a wide range of perspectives on the future of work. These resources do not necessarily reflect the views of IFOW.

Algorithms at work

The Amazonian Era and Gigification of Work

In this video, IFOW Director Anna Thomas explains how the ethos, practices, and business models that emerged within the gig economy have been packaged up and made available for download to the furthest corners of our essential services.
Algorithms at work

Big Data's Disparate Impact

This article has become the classic starting point for debates about algorithmic bias.
Algorithms at work

Reengineering Workplace Bargaining

How Big Data Drives Lower Wages and How Reframing Labor Law Can Restore Information Equality in the Workplace. This paper notes the dangers of 'moving the brain up the chain' and tension between individual and collective rights.
Algorithms at work

Challenging Biased Hiring Algorithms

This paper provides a detailed insight into the fast-growing industry of hiring algorithms and policy proposals for a way forward.
Algorithms at work

Limitless Worker Surveillance

The rise of AI is a global phenomenon: comparative perspectives are essential to get a sense of how different legal systems grapple with AI at work.
Algorithms at work

The Law & Political Economy of Workplace Technological Change

We often think about how technology is shaping the workplace – and how the law might respond. But the opposite question is just as important: how is employment law shaping workplace technological change?
Algorithms at work

What if Your Boss Was an Algorithm? The Rise of Artificial Intelligence at Work

This paper focuses on the implications of a rise in algorithmic management, and its implications for the future of work.
Algorithms at work

Protecting Workers in the Digital Age: Technology, Outsourcing and the Growing Precariousness of Work

This paper argues changes in the world of work offer an opportunity to rethink and restructure labour markets.
Algorithms at work

Negotiating the Algorithm: Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Labour Protection

This paper examines the role of labour law relative to redistribution in adressing challenges of AI at work.
Algorithms at work

Explainer: Algorithmic management in the workplace

This paper identifies key challenges in four broad areas – surveillance and control, transparency, bias and discrimination, and accountability. 
Algorithms at work

AI @ Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace

A report by Gina Neff and others which provides an overview of how AI is reshaping the world of work.
Algorithms at work

The Royal Society: “AI and Work”

This evidence synthesis summarises the literature on AI at work.

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