Inside the Invisible Cage

Download or read book Inside the Invisible Cage written by Hatim A. Rahman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines how organizations' use of algorithms is reconfiguring our understanding of control for millions of high-skilled workers who use online labor market platforms (e.g., Upwork, TopCoder, Gigster) to find their work. The book investigates how algorithms enable platforms to control workers within an environment in which organizations embed the rules and guidelines for how workers should behave in opaque algorithms that shift without providing notice, explanation, or recourse for workers"--