Moritz Altenried
Biographic Data
| ID | 1370258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moritz Altenried |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moritz |
| FAMILY NAME | Altenried |
| SIGNATURE | ALTENRIED M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leuphana University of Lüneburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7152-335X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Landscapes of precarious labour
Digital platforms are commonly portrayed as innovative technology-driven disruptors. This paper challenges such claims of novelty by situating digital platforms within broader historical and contemporary landscapes of precarious labour. It highlights four central elements that form part of the labour model of platforms – home-based labour, piece wages, day labour, and labour intermediaries – and traces pre-digital historical moments in which thes…
Light and Shadow of the Digital Factory
This response to the comments on The Digital Factory discusses why and how the concepts of the digital factory and digital Taylorism have been applied in the book, as well as the question of the relationship between digital control and workers' resistance to algorithmic management technologies. While agreeing with the comments that point to the limitations of the concepts used, this response argues that these can be productive precisely by drawin…
Mobile workers, contingent labour
The article takes the surprising exit of the food delivery platform Deliveroo from Berlin as a starting point to analyse the relationship between migration and the gig economy. In Berlin and many cities across the globe, migrant workers are indispensable to the operations of digital platforms such as Uber, Helpling, or Deliveroo. The article uses in-depth ethnographic and qualitative research to show how the latter's exit from Berlin provides an …
The Digital Factory
The platform as factory
This article analyses crowdwork platforms where various forms of digital labour are outsourced to digital workers across the globe. The labour of these workers is, among other things, a crucial component in the production, development and support of artificial intelligence. Crowdwork platforms are an extreme example of new forms of automated measurement, management and control of labour allowing, in turn, for the creation of hyperflexible and hig…
Logistical Borderscapes
This article investigates the governmental measures and policies adopted by Germany in the wake of the “long summer of migration” of 2015 to put refugees to work. Starting with a discussion of the autonomy of migration approach against the background of the multiple transformations and crises of the European border regime, the authors focus on shifting paradigms in the management of labor mobility. A short review of the emerging field of “critica…
Logistical Borderscapes
This article investigates the governmental measures and policies adopted by Germany in the wake of the “long summer of migration” of 2015 to put refugees to work. Starting with a discussion of the autonomy of migration approach against the background of the multiple transformations and crises of the European border regime, the authors focus on shifting paradigms in the management of labor mobility. A short review of the emerging field of “critica…
Mobile workers, contingent labour
The article takes the surprising exit of the food delivery platform Deliveroo from Berlin as a starting point to analyse the relationship between migration and the gig economy. In Berlin and many cities across the globe, migrant workers are indispensable to the operations of digital platforms such as Uber, Helpling, or Deliveroo. The article uses in-depth ethnographic and qualitative research to show how the latter's exit from Berlin provides an …
The platform as factory
This article analyses crowdwork platforms where various forms of digital labour are outsourced to digital workers across the globe. The labour of these workers is, among other things, a crucial component in the production, development and support of artificial intelligence. Crowdwork platforms are an extreme example of new forms of automated measurement, management and control of labour allowing, in turn, for the creation of hyperflexible and hig…
Logistical Borderscapes
This article investigates the governmental measures and policies adopted by Germany in the wake of the “long summer of migration” of 2015 to put refugees to work. Starting with a discussion of the autonomy of migration approach against the background of the multiple transformations and crises of the European border regime, the authors focus on shifting paradigms in the management of labor mobility. A short review of the emerging field of “critica…
The platform as factory
This article analyses crowdwork platforms where various forms of digital labour are outsourced to digital workers across the globe. The labour of these workers is, among other things, a crucial component in the production, development and support of artificial intelligence. Crowdwork platforms are an extreme example of new forms of automated measurement, management and control of labour allowing, in turn, for the creation of hyperflexible and hig…
The Digital Factory
Light and Shadow of the Digital Factory
This response to the comments on The Digital Factory discusses why and how the concepts of the digital factory and digital Taylorism have been applied in the book, as well as the question of the relationship between digital control and workers' resistance to algorithmic management technologies. While agreeing with the comments that point to the limitations of the concepts used, this response argues that these can be productive precisely by drawin…
Mobile workers, contingent labour
The article takes the surprising exit of the food delivery platform Deliveroo from Berlin as a starting point to analyse the relationship between migration and the gig economy. In Berlin and many cities across the globe, migrant workers are indispensable to the operations of digital platforms such as Uber, Helpling, or Deliveroo. The article uses in-depth ethnographic and qualitative research to show how the latter's exit from Berlin provides an …
Landscapes of precarious labour
Digital platforms are commonly portrayed as innovative technology-driven disruptors. This paper challenges such claims of novelty by situating digital platforms within broader historical and contemporary landscapes of precarious labour. It highlights four central elements that form part of the labour model of platforms – home-based labour, piece wages, day labour, and labour intermediaries – and traces pre-digital historical moments in which thes…
Digital Economy and Work Transformation (5 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Gig economy (2 works) · Globe (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works)