Phoebe V Moore
Biographic Data
| ID | 1356945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phoebe V Moore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phoebe V |
| FAMILY NAME | Moore |
| SIGNATURE | MOORE P V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8254-070X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Consent, coercion, colonialism
Digital transitions, involving the widespread adoption of biometric, algorithmic, and AI systems across public and private sectors, are often framed as inevitable and necessary for progress. However, these transitions are not neutral. They are shaped by coercive data extraction practices of digitalization, which consolidate corporate power, and reproduce colonial social relations. At the center of this process is the erosion of meaningful consent…
Workers’ right to the subject
The use of data to profile and make decisions about data subjects for citizenship, targeted advertising, job recruitment and other reasons, has been eminently normalised, which is an emerging threat to protected spaces for personal subjectivation and identity formation. The ‘right to the subject’; or to agency via personal subject formation outside bilateral profiling; is at stake. This is especially true for workers. Algorithmic management infus…
Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work
Who is the "smart worker"? Who should she be
Machines and measure
This Special Issue, entitled 'Machines & Measure', is largely the dissemination from a workshop held at University of Leicester School of Business, organised by editor Phoebe V Moore, for the Conference for Socialist Economists South Group in February 2018, which was hosted by the University of Leicester School of Business, Philosophy and Political Economy Centre. Not all the authors in the Special Issue were speakers at the event, but this colle…
The search for (artificial) intelligence, in capitalism
Artificial intelligence is being touted as a new wave of machinic processing and productive potential. Building on concepts starting with the invention of the term artificial intelligence in the 1950s, now, machines can supposedly not only see, hear, and think, but also solve problems and learn, and in this way, it seems that actually there is a new form of humiliation for humans. This article starts with a historical overview of the forerunners …
The mirror for (artificial) intelligence in capitalism
The mirror for (artificial) intelligence in capitalism' expands on the historical episodes outlined in the article by Engster and Moore in the current Special Issue, to develop the historical materialist critique of the history of ideas leading up to and during the eras of artificial intelligence, but also as a way to critique the contemporary moment where machines are ascribed autonomous intelligence. Specifically, the history of the ideational …
Black box or hidden abode? The expansion and exposure of platform work managerialism
This Special Issue holds that managerialism is not an abstract, trans-historical category, and this article argues that neither is it hidden within an impenetrable black box. An important new form of managerialism is being revealed which is specific to what Moore and Joyce argue to be a very observable, and also widely contested, platform management model (PMM). Marx’s ‘hidden abode’ is a more appropriate metaphor than a black box, thus, given em…
Metric power
Humans and Machines at Work
Tracking Affective Labour for Agility in the Quantified Workplace
Sensory and tracking technologies are being introduced into workplaces in ways Taylor and the Gilbreths could only have imagined. New work design experiments merge wellness with productivity to measure and modulate the affective and emotional labour of resilience that is necessary to survive the turbulence of the widespread incorporation of agile management systems, in which workers are expected to take symbolic direction from machines. The Quant…
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 …
Quantified Self in Precarity
EU labour law section
As opposed to the allusions made both in the British media and politicians' statements, particularly in the Leave campaign, that the EU has created negative living conditions for people in Britain, EU labour law has had a positive effect on local labour law and free movement of labour is a crucial aspect of social, economic and political development. This article focusses on EU labour law to make this argument, looking first at the ways that Brit…
Changing problematic parent–child interaction in child anxiety disorders
The quantified self
Implementation of quantified self technologies in workplaces relies on the ontological premise of Cartesian dualism with mind dominant over body. Contributing to debates in new materialism, we demonstrate that workers are now being asked to measure our own productivity and health and well-being in art-houses and warehouses alike in both the global north and south. Workers experience intensified precarity, austerity, intense competition for jobs a…
Legitimacy, Tribridity, and Decent Work Deficits
This article outlines how features of the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) tribrid configuration have led to tensions around its perceived legitimacy. I claim that the ILO's structure is the most democratic but at the same time also quite problematic for a UN agency. To support this claim, I look at relations between the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DfID) and the ILO, and DfID's recently introduced 2011 Mult…
Class and panic in British immigration
In Policing the Crisis, Stuart Hall et al. (1978) explored the calculus of work and the trope around portraying certain categories of people as taking advantage of the majority, without evidence. The concept of work became abstracted so that it was longer about employment, but about conformity with certain norms. The moralising discourse of work as a moral duty, also as connected to citizenship, underpins debates on immigration. Politicians and r…
Where is the study of work in critical IPE
The International Political Economy of Work and Employability By Phoebe V. Moore
Globalization and the 'New' Semi-Peripheries
This collection re-examines and re-assesses the role of the semi-periphery in world politics and argues that the processes of globalization have led us to widen our understanding of the semi-periphery
Exploitation of the self in community-based software production
Free and open-source software (FOSS) communities constitute an arena in which thousands of users voluntarily explore design codes, spot bugs in codes, and make contributions to the code in a fashion at odds with the otherwise hugely competitive software market. This computerisation movement emerged as a challenge to the domination of such behemoth firms as Microsoft and IBM, and is portrayed as having a revolutionary ultimate goal: 'to provide fr…
Parallel visions of peer production
The 'parallel visions' proposed by the contributing authors to this issue are intended to challenge the dominant themes of capitalist organisation and production through an in-depth look at peer-to-peer production and the development of software and sharing - a movement which, the authors argue, is based on new visions for value systems, ethics and governance. We have organised their contributions into sections based on the relevant aspects of th…
Global Governance
These books explicitly underline the necessity to revive and continue the “global governance” debate that has dominated both academic and policy relevant circles since the Commission on Global Governance in the 1990s. Technological developments, increase of foreign direct investment into and in some instances the subsequent abandonment of particular industries, increasing tensions of global and national union politics, and the questionable fate o…
Global Knowledge Capitalism, Self-woven Safety Nets, and the Crisis of Employability
In today’s global political economy, knowledge has become an asset, and workers are expected to arm themselves with an appropriate shield of knowledge that will make, and keep themselves employable in the era of flexibility and technological innovation. The emphasis on employability of individuals through workers’ creation of what I call selfwoven safety nets demonstrates an elite-led project to reduce government responsibility for employment wel…
The quantified self
Implementation of quantified self technologies in workplaces relies on the ontological premise of Cartesian dualism with mind dominant over body. Contributing to debates in new materialism, we demonstrate that workers are now being asked to measure our own productivity and health and well-being in art-houses and warehouses alike in both the global north and south. Workers experience intensified precarity, austerity, intense competition for jobs a…
Black box or hidden abode? The expansion and exposure of platform work managerialism
This Special Issue holds that managerialism is not an abstract, trans-historical category, and this article argues that neither is it hidden within an impenetrable black box. An important new form of managerialism is being revealed which is specific to what Moore and Joyce argue to be a very observable, and also widely contested, platform management model (PMM). Marx’s ‘hidden abode’ is a more appropriate metaphor than a black box, thus, given em…
Tracking Affective Labour for Agility in the Quantified Workplace
Sensory and tracking technologies are being introduced into workplaces in ways Taylor and the Gilbreths could only have imagined. New work design experiments merge wellness with productivity to measure and modulate the affective and emotional labour of resilience that is necessary to survive the turbulence of the widespread incorporation of agile management systems, in which workers are expected to take symbolic direction from machines. The Quant…
Parallel visions of peer production
The 'parallel visions' proposed by the contributing authors to this issue are intended to challenge the dominant themes of capitalist organisation and production through an in-depth look at peer-to-peer production and the development of software and sharing - a movement which, the authors argue, is based on new visions for value systems, ethics and governance. We have organised their contributions into sections based on the relevant aspects of th…
Exploitation of the self in community-based software production
Free and open-source software (FOSS) communities constitute an arena in which thousands of users voluntarily explore design codes, spot bugs in codes, and make contributions to the code in a fashion at odds with the otherwise hugely competitive software market. This computerisation movement emerged as a challenge to the domination of such behemoth firms as Microsoft and IBM, and is portrayed as having a revolutionary ultimate goal: 'to provide fr…
Global Knowledge Capitalism, Self-woven Safety Nets, and the Crisis of Employability
In today’s global political economy, knowledge has become an asset, and workers are expected to arm themselves with an appropriate shield of knowledge that will make, and keep themselves employable in the era of flexibility and technological innovation. The emphasis on employability of individuals through workers’ creation of what I call selfwoven safety nets demonstrates an elite-led project to reduce government responsibility for employment wel…
Class and panic in British immigration
In Policing the Crisis, Stuart Hall et al. (1978) explored the calculus of work and the trope around portraying certain categories of people as taking advantage of the majority, without evidence. The concept of work became abstracted so that it was longer about employment, but about conformity with certain norms. The moralising discourse of work as a moral duty, also as connected to citizenship, underpins debates on immigration. Politicians and r…
Where is the study of work in critical IPE
Revolutions from above
While making very substantial changes to the population's working conditions, government strategies to foster economic development in South Korea have historically attempted to keep worker involvement, in terms of influence on the process, to a bare minimum. Applying the Gramscian concept of passive revolution, this article analyses governance mechanisms and production relations over a history of authoritarianism and up to the contemporary period…
The search for (artificial) intelligence, in capitalism
Artificial intelligence is being touted as a new wave of machinic processing and productive potential. Building on concepts starting with the invention of the term artificial intelligence in the 1950s, now, machines can supposedly not only see, hear, and think, but also solve problems and learn, and in this way, it seems that actually there is a new form of humiliation for humans. This article starts with a historical overview of the forerunners …
Revolutions from above
While making very substantial changes to the population's working conditions, government strategies to foster economic development in South Korea have historically attempted to keep worker involvement, in terms of influence on the process, to a bare minimum. Applying the Gramscian concept of passive revolution, this article analyses governance mechanisms and production relations over a history of authoritarianism and up to the contemporary period…
Global Knowledge Capitalism, Self-woven Safety Nets, and the Crisis of Employability
In today’s global political economy, knowledge has become an asset, and workers are expected to arm themselves with an appropriate shield of knowledge that will make, and keep themselves employable in the era of flexibility and technological innovation. The emphasis on employability of individuals through workers’ creation of what I call selfwoven safety nets demonstrates an elite-led project to reduce government responsibility for employment wel…
Global Governance
These books explicitly underline the necessity to revive and continue the “global governance” debate that has dominated both academic and policy relevant circles since the Commission on Global Governance in the 1990s. Technological developments, increase of foreign direct investment into and in some instances the subsequent abandonment of particular industries, increasing tensions of global and national union politics, and the questionable fate o…
Globalization and the 'New' Semi-Peripheries
This collection re-examines and re-assesses the role of the semi-periphery in world politics and argues that the processes of globalization have led us to widen our understanding of the semi-periphery
Exploitation of the self in community-based software production
Free and open-source software (FOSS) communities constitute an arena in which thousands of users voluntarily explore design codes, spot bugs in codes, and make contributions to the code in a fashion at odds with the otherwise hugely competitive software market. This computerisation movement emerged as a challenge to the domination of such behemoth firms as Microsoft and IBM, and is portrayed as having a revolutionary ultimate goal: 'to provide fr…
Parallel visions of peer production
The 'parallel visions' proposed by the contributing authors to this issue are intended to challenge the dominant themes of capitalist organisation and production through an in-depth look at peer-to-peer production and the development of software and sharing - a movement which, the authors argue, is based on new visions for value systems, ethics and governance. We have organised their contributions into sections based on the relevant aspects of th…
The International Political Economy of Work and Employability By Phoebe V. Moore
Where is the study of work in critical IPE
Legitimacy, Tribridity, and Decent Work Deficits
This article outlines how features of the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) tribrid configuration have led to tensions around its perceived legitimacy. I claim that the ILO's structure is the most democratic but at the same time also quite problematic for a UN agency. To support this claim, I look at relations between the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DfID) and the ILO, and DfID's recently introduced 2011 Mult…
Class and panic in British immigration
In Policing the Crisis, Stuart Hall et al. (1978) explored the calculus of work and the trope around portraying certain categories of people as taking advantage of the majority, without evidence. The concept of work became abstracted so that it was longer about employment, but about conformity with certain norms. The moralising discourse of work as a moral duty, also as connected to citizenship, underpins debates on immigration. Politicians and r…
Changing problematic parent–child interaction in child anxiety disorders
The quantified self
Implementation of quantified self technologies in workplaces relies on the ontological premise of Cartesian dualism with mind dominant over body. Contributing to debates in new materialism, we demonstrate that workers are now being asked to measure our own productivity and health and well-being in art-houses and warehouses alike in both the global north and south. Workers experience intensified precarity, austerity, intense competition for jobs a…
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 …
Quantified Self in Precarity
EU labour law section
As opposed to the allusions made both in the British media and politicians' statements, particularly in the Leave campaign, that the EU has created negative living conditions for people in Britain, EU labour law has had a positive effect on local labour law and free movement of labour is a crucial aspect of social, economic and political development. This article focusses on EU labour law to make this argument, looking first at the ways that Brit…
Metric power
Humans and Machines at Work
Tracking Affective Labour for Agility in the Quantified Workplace
Sensory and tracking technologies are being introduced into workplaces in ways Taylor and the Gilbreths could only have imagined. New work design experiments merge wellness with productivity to measure and modulate the affective and emotional labour of resilience that is necessary to survive the turbulence of the widespread incorporation of agile management systems, in which workers are expected to take symbolic direction from machines. The Quant…
Black box or hidden abode? The expansion and exposure of platform work managerialism
This Special Issue holds that managerialism is not an abstract, trans-historical category, and this article argues that neither is it hidden within an impenetrable black box. An important new form of managerialism is being revealed which is specific to what Moore and Joyce argue to be a very observable, and also widely contested, platform management model (PMM). Marx’s ‘hidden abode’ is a more appropriate metaphor than a black box, thus, given em…
Who is the "smart worker"? Who should she be
Machines and measure
This Special Issue, entitled 'Machines & Measure', is largely the dissemination from a workshop held at University of Leicester School of Business, organised by editor Phoebe V Moore, for the Conference for Socialist Economists South Group in February 2018, which was hosted by the University of Leicester School of Business, Philosophy and Political Economy Centre. Not all the authors in the Special Issue were speakers at the event, but this colle…
The search for (artificial) intelligence, in capitalism
Artificial intelligence is being touted as a new wave of machinic processing and productive potential. Building on concepts starting with the invention of the term artificial intelligence in the 1950s, now, machines can supposedly not only see, hear, and think, but also solve problems and learn, and in this way, it seems that actually there is a new form of humiliation for humans. This article starts with a historical overview of the forerunners …
The mirror for (artificial) intelligence in capitalism
The mirror for (artificial) intelligence in capitalism' expands on the historical episodes outlined in the article by Engster and Moore in the current Special Issue, to develop the historical materialist critique of the history of ideas leading up to and during the eras of artificial intelligence, but also as a way to critique the contemporary moment where machines are ascribed autonomous intelligence. Specifically, the history of the ideational …
Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work
Workers’ right to the subject
The use of data to profile and make decisions about data subjects for citizenship, targeted advertising, job recruitment and other reasons, has been eminently normalised, which is an emerging threat to protected spaces for personal subjectivation and identity formation. The ‘right to the subject’; or to agency via personal subject formation outside bilateral profiling; is at stake. This is especially true for workers. Algorithmic management infus…
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