Your Boss Is an Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Antonio Aloisi is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow and Assistant Professor of European and Comparative Labour Law at IE Law School, Madrid, Spain. Before joining IE University, he was a Max Weber postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy. He holds a PhD in Business and Social Law from Bocconi University, Milan, Italy (2018).

Antonio's research focuses on the impact of digital innovation on labour regulation and social institutions in the European Union and beyond. The aim of his Boss Ex Machina project, which has received funding from the EU Horizon 2020 programme, is to map practices of algorithmic decision-making and assess the adequacy of existing legal frameworks when it comes to enabling sustainable data-driven workplaces.

Antonio was previously a visiting researcher at the Saint Louis University, USA, and worked for the Italian Ministry of Education. He has been involved in various projects on platform work, non-standard employment, and collective rights, commissioned by international organisations and research centres. He has authored several articles, book chapters, and op-eds.

Valerio De Stefano is Canada Research Chair in Innovation, Law and Society, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada. He was previously BOF-ZAP Professor of Labour Law at the Institute for Labour Law, University of Leuven, Belgium. Valerio's research focuses on artificial intelligence, people analytics and the workplace, and platform-based work in the gig-economy. He holds a PhD in Law of Business and Commerce from Bocconi University, Milan, Italy (2011).

From 2014 to 2017, Valerio was an officer of the International Labour Organization. He has been the principal investigator of several major grants about labour and technology, including from the FWO - Research Foundation Flanders and Horizon2020. In 2020, Valerio was awarded the Service to Society Prize by KU Leuven for his public engagement based on his research. He has been a consultant for the ILO, several EU institutions, and national governments. He is co-editor of the Dispatches section of the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal and a member of the OECD Network of Experts on AI (ONE AI).

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Robots, algorithms, and online platforms are changing the world of work. Using case studies and examples from the UK, EU, and US, this book provides a compass to navigate this transformation. Can flexibility and legal protection be reconciled to uphold innovation? How likely is it that the gig-economy model will emerge as a new organisational paradigm across sectors? How can we address the pervasive power of AI-enabled monitoring? What can social partners and political players do to adopt effective regulation?



The book offers a guide to explore these new scenarios, their promises, and perils, and the regulatory options available.