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Christiaens argues that digital technologies are fundamentally undermining workers’ autonomy by enacting systems of surveillance that lead to exploitation, alienation, and exhaustion. For a more sustainable future of work, digital technologies should support human development instead of subordinating it to algorithmic control.
Sommario
1. The Creeping Uberization of Work
1.1 What is the Digital Gig Economy?
1.2 Post-Workerism and the Struggle for Workers' Autonomy
1.3 Toward Convivial Autonomy in the Digital Gig Economy
2. Governing the Workforce: From the Factory to the Digital Gig Economy
2.1 The Industrial Factory under Fordism
2.2 The Age of Post-Fordism
2.3 The Role of Digital Technology in the Post-Fordist Corporation
2.4 Conclusion
3. Exploitation and the Capture of Social Cooperation
3.1 Against the "Free Labour"-Thesis
3.2 The Becoming-Rent of Profit
3.3 Digital Capture and Enclave Rent
3.4 Digital Capture and Financial Rent
3.5 Conclusion
4. Alienation in the Platform Economy
4.1 The Ambivalence of the General Intellect
4.2 Alienation and the General Intellect
4.3 Conclusion
5. The Human Limits to Growth
5.1 Marx on the Problem of Fatigue
5.2 Digital Connection and Fatigue in the Digital Gig Economy
5.3 The Hidden Abode of Social Reproduction
5.4 Conclusion
6. Workers' Autonomy as Self-
Info autore
Tim Christiaens is assistant professor of economic ethics at the Department of Philosophy of Tilburg University in the Netherlands. His research focuses mainly on contemporary economic issues, such as financialization, socio-economic exclusion, and the digitalization of work, viewed through Italian and French critical theory (Foucault, post-workerism, Deleuze, Agamben). His research has been published in journals like Theory, Culture & Society, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Critical Sociology, and European Journal of Social Theory.
Riassunto
Christiaens argues that digital technologies are fundamentally undermining workers’ autonomy by enacting systems of surveillance that lead to exploitation, alienation, and exhaustion. For a more sustainable future of work, digital technologies should support human development instead of subordinating it to algorithmic control.
