The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts

by Phoebe V. Moore

Book Overview

Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by metrics?

The Quantified Self in Precarity highlights how, whether it be in insecure 'gig' work or office work, such digitalisation is not an inevitable process - nor is it one that necessarily improves working conditions. Indeed, through unique research...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138674060
• ISBN13: 9781138674066
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"