1. How is hierarchy legitimized w/in democratic society? Under what conditions is it undermined?
2. Explain how the existing institutions become ineffective in terms of ghost-work & algorithmic discrimination.
3. What is the original meaning of independent workers and how did it change (under what structure does it become hyper-dependent on others)?
4. What is Marxist view on routinization regarding deskilling and how does Sennett’s view differ from his?
W2: Machine-Based-Production and Factory Workers: Implications on Skill, Autonomy, Wage, and Protection
W3: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of New Workforces: Office Workers, Service Workers, Managerial Class
W4: Technology and Meaning of Expertise
W5: Labor Protection and Framing: De-formalization and New-Feudalism
W6: Platform Economy 1: Algorithmic Management
W7: Platform Economy 2: Micro-work/Ghost-work (Platform Monopoly and Labor Implications)
W8: Algorithmic Discrimination
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