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Automation, Augmentation, Autonomy: Labour Regulation and the Digital Transformation of Managerial Prerogatives

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dc.contributor.authorAloisi, Antonio
dc.contributor.editorGyulavári, Tamás
dc.contributor.editorMenegatti, Emanuele
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dc.date.accessioned2024-11-26T16:53:21Z
dc.date.available2024-11-26T16:53:21Z
dc.date.issued2022-11-29
dc.description.abstractThis chapter is written within the framework of the ‘Boss Ex Machina’ project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 893888. I am extremely grateful to Valerio De Stefano, Nastazja Potocka-Sionek, Silvia Rainone, the editors of this volume and my colleagues at IE University Law School for participating in an enriching discussion and providing invaluable feedback. Technologies together represent a constitutive component of modern societies, which is why their multifarious impacts have long been at the centre of scholarly and popular discourses. Understandably, their emergence has prompted both rosy expectations and justified anxieties. In addition to permeating almost all aspects of human life, digital advances are significantly altering workplace interactions and reshaping industrial processes. The world of work is arguably one of many areas in which the influence of new technology is increasingly tangible. Over the last few years, workers in all sectors have witnessed the frantic acceleration of the digital transformation, which has been further exacerbated (if not validated) by the Covid-19 pandemic necessitating the reorganisation of production methods while contributing to the widespread adoption of digital solutions intended to enable business continuity, facilitate remote working arrangements and keep people safe. Both during the most severe phases of the Covid-19 lockdowns and after the related restrictions were relaxed, the penetration of digital applications continued to reach astonishing peaks, corroborating their role as ‘privatised utilities’ for workers, employers and public institutions alike. Yet, the relevance of digital automation was prominent well before the pandemic struck. This exogenous event could, therefore, serve as a litmus test of the soundness of theories concerning human substitution, expanded managerial powers, skill displacement and efficiency enhancement....
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dc.identifier.citationALOISI, A. (2022). Automation, Augmentation, Autonomy: Labour Regulation and the Digital Transformation of Managerial Prerogatives. Decent Work in a Digital Age: European and Comparative Perspectives Oxford: Hart.https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509958269.ch-013
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781509958269.ch-013
dc.identifier.isbn9781509958269
dc.identifier.publicationtitleDecent Work in the Digital Age: European and Comparative Perspectives
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3366
dc.language.isoen
dc.page.total25
dc.publisherBloomsbury
dc.relation.departmentDigital & Tech Law
dc.relation.entityIE University
dc.relation.schoolIE Law School
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dc.subject.keywordDigital Transformation
dc.titleAutomation, Augmentation, Autonomy: Labour Regulation and the Digital Transformation of Managerial Prerogatives
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