Augmented exploitation : artificial intelligence, automation and work / edited by Phoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock.

London : Pluto Press, 2021.

ix, 171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

AI trainers: who is the smart worker today? / Phoebe V. Moore -- Work now, profit later: AI between capital, labour, and regulation / Toni Prug and Paško Bilić -- Delivering food on bikes: between machinic subordination and autonomy in the algorithmic workplace / Benjamin Herr -- Putting the habitus to work: digital presumption, surveillance, and distinction / Eduard Müller -- The power of prediction: people analytics at work / Uwe Vormbusch and Peter Kels -- Manufacturing consent in the gig economy / Luca Perrig -- Automated and autonomous?: technologies mediating the exertion and perception of labour control / Beatriz Casas ́González -- Can robots produce customer confidence?: contradictions among automation, new mechanisms of control, and resistances in the banking labour process / Giorgio Boccardo -- It gets better with age: AI and the labour process in old and new gig-economy firms / Adam Badger -- Self-tracking and sousveillance at work: insights from human-computer interaction and social science / Marta E. Cecchinato, Sandy J. J. Gould, and Frederick Harry Pitts -- Breaking digital atomisation: resistant cultures of solidarity in platform-based courier work / Heiner Heiland and Simon Schaupp -- Resisting the algorithmic boss: guessing, gaming, reframing, and contesting rules in app-based management / Joanna Bronowicka and Mirela Ivanova.

Includes bibliographical references and index.