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The Quantified Self in Precarity
Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by metrics? The Quantified Self in Precarity highlights how, whether it be in insecure ‘gig’ work or office work, such digitalisation is not an inevitable process – nor is it one that necessarily improves working conditions. Indeed, through unique research and empirical data, Moore demonstrates how workplace quantification leads to high turnover rates, workplace rationalisation and worker stress and anxiety, with these issues linked to increased rates of subjective and objective precarity. Scientific management asked us to be efficient. Now, we are asked to be agile. But what does this mean for the everyday lives we lead? With a fresh perspective on how technology and the use of technology for management and self-management changes the ‘quantified’, precarious workplace today, The Quantified Self in Precarity will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in fields such as Science and Technology, Organisation Management, Sociology and Politics.
The Descendants of Nathaniel & Hannah (Hunt) Moore of Chester County, Pennsylvania
Nathaniel Moore Sr. lived in Goshen Township in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He married the widow, Hannah Hunt Collins, in 1753. Nathaniel died in 1777 and Hannah in 1802. Descendants lived in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, and elsewhere.
Humans and Machines at Work
This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers’ local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work’s digitalisation. Precarious gig economy workers ride bikes and drive taxis in China and Britain; call centre workers in India experience invasive tracking; warehouse workers discover that hidden data has been used for layoffs; and academic researchers see their 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 experiments and the lineage of automation. This book will appeal to scholars in the Sociology of Work and Digital Labour Studies and anyone interested in learning about monitoring and surveillance, automation, the gig economy and the quantified self in the workplace.
Augmented Exploitation
Artificial intelligence should be changing society, not reinforcing capitalist notions of work
Beware the Bustle
Fun See Tokiyo discovers the “paths between,” secret routes the slave empire must be using to transport slaves and spin its web of control. But the Alexander Legacy Company is distracted by a new enemy when the White Ones seek to make all men bow to their superior nature through fashion and commerce. Constance Lugg may have assassinated Britain’s Prime Minister and paved the way for Trevor Newsome’s meteoric rise. Even Fun’s wife Annabelle and their leader, Phoebe Moore Campbell, might be sucked into this mass conformity. Can Fun fight bigotry and escape the horrors of ethnic cleansing while pursuing a new technology that can help the Desert Demon and his devotees command land, sea, and air in their quest for domination?
Men of No Reputation
Men of No Reputation is the first account to explore the life of Robert Boatright, one of Middle America’s most gifted, but forgotten, confidence men. Boatright’s story provides a rare window into the secret world of Missouri’s criminal past, which influenced the methods of confidence men across the country. Boatright took the preexisting big-store confidence scheme and perfected it. With the assistance of a talented coterie of confederates known as the Buckfoot Gang, this “dean of modern confidence men” fleeced the gentry of the Midwest on fixed athletic contests in the turn-of-the-century Ozarks. Working in concert with a local bank and an influential Democratic boss, Boatright s...
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EVERY GIRL'S SECRET FANTASY
Afraid of love, Phoebe made a decision. In order to find the person she’s meant to be with, she has to get used to intimacy with men. She has to find Mr. Right Now! Playboy Pace perfectly fits the bill for this goal. He’s manly, dangerously sexy and has an unbearably charming smile. Due to some unexpected circumstances, he accompanies Phoebe on a long drive back to her hometown. This is her chance to get closer to him. Heart pounding, Phoebe takes it upon herself to sweetly seduce him. She soon wonders if Pace might actually be her true love…but Pace is hiding a shocking secret!
Illustrated Dodge a Twist and a Tobacconist
Alt-Victorian,Classic characters,human trafficking, Dickens, Kipling, Alcott, Stevenson
