40827 - Platform Work

Description

The digital revolution has begun to transform the nature of work in far reaching ways. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the case of platform work, which uses algorithms to manage the provision of labor services, usurping the role of organizations staffed by humans. This session is devoted to theoretical and empirical implications of this shift, which threatens to deepen the inequalities that capitalism has historically produced.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Session

Presider

• Steven Vallas, Northeastern University

Individual Presentations

• On Algorithmic Wage Discrimination - Veena Dubal, UC Hastings College of the Law

• Algorithmic Management and New Class Relations - David Stark, Columbia University

• Gender as a Technology of the Gig Economy - Julia B. Ticona, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant

• Angèle Christin, Stanford University

Session Organizer

• Steven Vallas, Northeastern University