Your Boss Is an Algorithm, Part One

If you would like to buy your own copy of Your Boss is an Algorithm, go to the Bloomsbury website and use code pod35 followed by your respective country code, US, UK, CA, AU, depending on where you are located.   Antonio Aloisi is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow and Assistant Professor of European and Comparative Labour Law at IE Law School, Madrid, Spain, and Valerio De Stefano is Canada Research Chair in Innovation, Law and Society, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada. Together, they are the authors of Your Boss Is an Algorithm, which examines the effect that robots, algorithms, and online platforms have on the world of work. In part one of this episode, we discuss what algorithms have to do with labor, how COVID has impacted certain platforms and algorithms, how digital spaces and technology can replicate power structures, and much much more. Take a listen.