Novara FM: Our New Cyberboss Overlords
Amazon, Uber and Deliveroo all depend on the power of algorithms to organise and control their employees. Can workers beat the cyberboss?
Tag: algorithmic management
Analysis: ‘Capitalism’s Wet Dream’: Amazon’s Patents Signal the Future It Hopes to Achieve
Alessandro Delfanti
By filing hundreds of patents a year, Amazon publishes its ideas for new technologies and ways of managing workers. As part of our focus on the future of work, Alessandro Delfanti explores some of the technological futures Amazon has in mind.
Analysis: ‘Fuck the Algorithm’: How A-Level Students Have Shown the Future of Protest
James Meadway
Aside from their much deserved success in forcing the government to ditch algorithmically-moderated A-level grades, protesting students have signalled an increasingly salient area of politicisation. James Meadway takes a closer look at the use and abuse of data within our systems of governance.
Analysis: When Logistics Run Out of Time
Craig Gent
Shoppers have been told they "should all be ashamed" for emptying shelves as the country adjusts to life in times of pandemic. But personalising the problem lets supermarket supply chains off the hook, argues Craig Gent.
Novara FM: The All-Seeing Algorithm?
James Butler is joined by Novara Media’s own Craig Gent to discuss the rise of the algorithm, the new workplace under algorithmic management, and the scope and practice of workers’ resistance to new techniques of domination.