The Quantified Worker: Law and Technology in the Modern Workplace

Employment / Labour Law

The Quantified Worker: Law and Technology in the Modern Workplace

By Ifeoma Ajunwa
Cambridge University Press May 2023

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ISBN-13
9781316636954
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
May 2023
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The information revolution has ushered in a data-driven reorganization of the workplace. Big data and AI are used to surveil workers and shift risk. Workplace wellness programs appraise our health. Personality job tests calibrate our mental state. The monitoring of social media and surveillance of the workplace measure our social behavior. With rich historical sources and contemporary examples, The Quantified Worker explores how the workforce science of today goes far beyond increasing efficiency and threatens to erase individual personhood. With exhaustive detail, Ifeoma Ajunwa shows how different forms of worker quantification are enabled, facilitated, and driven by technological advances.

Timely and eye-opening, The Quantified Worker advocates for changes in the law that will mitigate the ill effects of the modern workplace.

Table of Contents

Part I. The Ideology of Worker Quantification:
1. The Rise of Scientific Management
2. Socio-Legal Responses to Scientific Management
Part II. The Mechanical Managers:
3. Automated Hiring and Discrimination
4. Personality Job Tests
5. Automated Video Interviews
6. The Unbounded Workplace and Worker Surveillance
7. Workplace Wellness Programs
8. Telecommuting and Health Surveillance in the Covid-19 Era
Part III. Quantified Discrimination:
9. Wearable Tech: The Quantified Self at Work
10. Quantified Racism
Part IV. Business Ethics and New Legal Frameworks:
11. The Ethical Dimensions of Worker Quantification
12. Regulating Mechanical Managers
Conclusion: Imagining a Better Future for Workers
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