Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-444) and index.
Contents:
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 -- Workplace wellness programs -- Telecommuting and health surveillance in the Covid-19 era -- Wearable tech: the quantified self at work -- Quantified racism -- The ethical dimensions of worker quantification -- Regulating mechanical managers -- Conclusion : imagining a better future for workers.
Summary:
"This book contextualizes technological developments in the workplace through a legal and socioeconomic lens and argues that the modern worker is "quantified" to the detriment of social equality. Chapters focus on the impact of emerging technologies, changing office architecture, and legislative proposals to address worker privacy"-- Provided by publisher.
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