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100			_aWalker, Michael, Fleming, Peter and Berti, Marco _929473
245			_a‘You can’t pick up a phone and talk to someone’: How algorithms function as biopower in the gig economy
260			_aOrganization
300			_a28(1), Jan, 2021: 26-43
520			_aThis paper asks why there is so little collective dissent and mobilised resistance in the gig economy, especially when labour-based digital platforms are used. We suggest part of the answer lies with ‘management by algorithm’. Drawing on an empirical study of Uber drivers in Australia, we found that algorithms function as a form of biopower, a concept introduced by Michel Foucault. As Uber drivers ‘life processes’ are put to work, fragmentation, isolation and resignation ensue. We explore the implications that our findings have for appreciating how biopower operates within platform capitalism and beyond. – Reproduced
650			_aAlgorithms, Biopower, Gig economy, Platform capitalism, Resistance, Uber _927596
773			_aOrganization
906			_aALGORITHMS
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