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In a world increasingly run by algorithms and artificial intelligence, Hatim Rahman traces how organizations are using algorithms to control workers in an ""invisible cage."" Inside the Invisible Cage uses unique longitudinal data to investigate how digital labor platforms use algorithms to dictate the actions of high-skilled workers by determining accepted behaviors, work opportunities, and even success. As Hatim Rahman explains, employers can use algorithms to shift rules and guidelines without notice, explanation, or recourse for workers. The invisible cage signals a profound shift in the way markets and organizations categorize and ultimately control people. Unlike previous forms of labor control, the invisible cage is ubiquitous, yet it is also opaque and shifting, which makes breaking free from it difficult for workers. This book traces how the invisible cage was developed over time and the implications it has for the spread of new technology, such as generative artificial intelligence. Inside the Invisible Cage also provides organizations, workers, and policymakers with insights on how to ensure the future of work has truly equitable, mutually beneficial outcomes.

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""Rahman’s book outlines several pain points that platforms should strive to solve if gig workers are to remain engaged and fulfilled. . . . It’s clear that gig-based work is here to stay, so it’s important that the platforms grow so that workers get a fair share of the pie rather than scrabble around in a race to the bottom. The aim should be for the growth of platforms to be as good for workers as it is for businesses so that we don’t confine workers to the ‘invisible cage’ they’re currently in."" * Cybernews *

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Hatim A. Rahman is an award-winning assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

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