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11 - The Ethical Dimensions of Worker Quantification

from Part IV - Business Ethics and New Legal Frameworks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2023

Ifeoma Ajunwa
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina School of Law
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The information revolution has ushered in a data-driven reorganization of the workplace. Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI) are used to surveil workers and shift risk. Workplace wellness programs appraise our health. Personality job tests calibrate our mental state. The monitoring of social media and the surveillance of the workplace measure our social behavior. With rich historical sources and contemporary examples, The Quantified Worker explores how the workforce science of today goes far beyond increasing efficiency and threatens to erase individual personhood. With exhaustive detail, Ifeoma Ajunwa shows how different forms of worker quantification are enabled, facilitated, and driven by technological advances. Timely and eye-opening, The Quantified Worker advocates for changes in the law that will mitigate the ill effects of the modern workplace.

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The Quantified Worker
Law and Technology in the Modern Workplace
, pp. 323 - 348
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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