Amanda Peticca-Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 1451711 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Peticca-Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Peticca-Harris |
| SIGNATURE | PETICCA-HARRIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grenoble Ecole de Management |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Orchestration of Care
Postcapitalist precarious work and those in the ‘drivers’ seat
In this inductive, qualitative study, we observe how Uber, a company often hailed as being the poster-child of the sharing economy facilitated through a digital platform may also at times represent and reinforce postcapitalist hyper-exploitation. Drawing on the motivations and lived experiences of 31 Uber drivers in Toronto, Canada, we provide insights into three groups of Uber drivers: (1) those that are driving part-time to earn extra money in …
Uberland
Reviewed by: Uberland: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Rules of Work by Alex Rosenblat Amanda Peticca-Harris Alex Rosenblat, Uberland: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Rules of Work (University of California Press 2018) Uberland is at its core, a chronology of the work experiences and working conditions of Uber drivers across the United States and Canada. Yet, through the myriad of these drivers' accounts, Alex Rosenblat goes deeper, unpacking t…
The good academic
Managing compassionately? Managerial narratives about grief and compassion
How do you manage a team following the death of an employee? This article explores this question and inquires if managerial responses to suffering can be compassionate with a decentralized team structure, in the restaurant industry where employees are faced with a high degree of emotional labour. To date, the compassion process has suggested that a focal actor, often a manager, first must notice suffering, then must feel empathic concern, and act…
The perils of project-based work
This article examines two blogs written by the spouses of game developers about extreme and exploitative working conditions in the video game industry and the associated reader comments. The wives of these video game developers and members of the game community decry these working conditions and challenge dominant ideologies about making games. This article contributes to the work intensification literature by challenging the belief that long hou…
Managing compassionately? Managerial narratives about grief and compassion
How do you manage a team following the death of an employee? This article explores this question and inquires if managerial responses to suffering can be compassionate with a decentralized team structure, in the restaurant industry where employees are faced with a high degree of emotional labour. To date, the compassion process has suggested that a focal actor, often a manager, first must notice suffering, then must feel empathic concern, and act…
The perils of project-based work
This article examines two blogs written by the spouses of game developers about extreme and exploitative working conditions in the video game industry and the associated reader comments. The wives of these video game developers and members of the game community decry these working conditions and challenge dominant ideologies about making games. This article contributes to the work intensification literature by challenging the belief that long hou…
The good academic
Managing compassionately? Managerial narratives about grief and compassion
How do you manage a team following the death of an employee? This article explores this question and inquires if managerial responses to suffering can be compassionate with a decentralized team structure, in the restaurant industry where employees are faced with a high degree of emotional labour. To date, the compassion process has suggested that a focal actor, often a manager, first must notice suffering, then must feel empathic concern, and act…
Postcapitalist precarious work and those in the ‘drivers’ seat
In this inductive, qualitative study, we observe how Uber, a company often hailed as being the poster-child of the sharing economy facilitated through a digital platform may also at times represent and reinforce postcapitalist hyper-exploitation. Drawing on the motivations and lived experiences of 31 Uber drivers in Toronto, Canada, we provide insights into three groups of Uber drivers: (1) those that are driving part-time to earn extra money in …
Uberland
Reviewed by: Uberland: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Rules of Work by Alex Rosenblat Amanda Peticca-Harris Alex Rosenblat, Uberland: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Rules of Work (University of California Press 2018) Uberland is at its core, a chronology of the work experiences and working conditions of Uber drivers across the United States and Canada. Yet, through the myriad of these drivers' accounts, Alex Rosenblat goes deeper, unpacking t…
Orchestration of Care
Political science (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works)