The quantified worker :: law and technology in the modern workplace /: Ifeoma Ajunwa, University of North Carolina School of Law.

Name: The quantified worker : law and technology in the modern workplace / Ifeoma Ajunwa, University of North Carolina School of Law.
ISBN: 9781316888681

Ajunwa, Ifeoma,

The quantified worker : law and technology in the modern workplace / Ifeoma Ajunwa, University of North Carolina School of Law.

Ajunwa, Ifeoma, author.

2023

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Ajunwa, Ifeoma, author.

Title

The quantified worker : law and technology in the modern workplace / Ifeoma Ajunwa, University of North Carolina School of Law.

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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Description

1 online resource (xiv, 461 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

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Introduction
The rise of scientific management
Socio-legal responses to scientific management
Automated hiring and discrimination
Personality job tests
Automated video interviews
The unbounded workplace and worker surveillance
Wearable tech : the quantified self at work
Workplace wellness programs
Telecommuting and health surveillance in the Covid-19 era
Quantified racism
The ethical dimensions of worker quantification
Regulating mechanical managers
Conclusion : imagining a better future for workers.

Summary

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.

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English