Humans and Machines at Work

This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers' local experiences that reflectthe ubiquity of work's digitalisation. Precarious gig economy workers ride bikes and drivetaxis in China and Britain; call centre workers in India experience invasive tracking; warehouseworkers discover that hidden data has been used for layoffs; and academic researchers seetheir labour obscured by a 'data foam' that does not benefit them. These cases are couched in historical accounts of identity and selfhood experiments seen in the Hawthorne experimentsand the lineage of automation. This book will appeal to scholars in the Sociology of Work andDigital Labour Studies and anyone interested in learning about monitoring and surveillance,automation, the gig economy and the quantified self in the workplace.