Dr Shiv Issar, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Social Anthropology, SIAS recently co-authored a book chapter titled Labor’s Odyssey Through Algorithmic Systems published in the The Sage Handbook of Digital Labour.
The abstract for the chapter: Algorithmic systems bear testimony to the sweeping transformation of labor in the 21st century. Not only do they mediate the way work is executed but they also increasingly define what constitutes possible work. They stand in direct relation to the ways labor is identified, hired, governed, performed, and evaluated. We provide a coherent framework for the emerging research around digital labor by exploring the use of algorithmic systems across four distinct dimensions of labor: algorithmic hiring, algorithmic regulation, algorithmic content moderation, and algorithmic evaluation of labor.
