How technologies of organization are redrawing the lines of class struggle

Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers are instructed, tracked and monitored by increasingly dystopian management technologies.

In Cyberboss, Craig Gent takes us into workplaces where algorithms rule to excavate the politics behind the newest form of managerial power. Combining worker testimony and original research on companies such as Amazon, Uber, and Deliveroo, the cutting edge of algorithmic management technology, this book reveals the sometimes unexpected effects these new techniques have on work, workers and managers. Gent advances an alternative politics of resistance in the face of digital control.

Panel:

Craig Gent is a writer, editor and researcher. He is North of England Editor at Novara Media, where he has worked for over ten years. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick, and his work has been published in Jacobin, Vice and the Independent. He is a Research Affiliate at the Autonomy Institute.

Grace Western is a Working Time Consultant at the Autonomy Institute, before which she spent several years working in economic policy focused on envisioning a new economy. She studied political science and women’s studies in university and holds a Masters of Public Policy from the London School of Economics.