Author: Phoebe V Moore
Date of Publication: 2018
Digitalization has begun to impact work on the streets, at home, in factories and warehouses, and in
offices. The logic of algorithmic work acquisition and governance focuses on efficiency and profit
making. However, it also potentially penalizes women, youth, migrant workers and disabled workers,
leading to the ‘unequal life chances’ which Galtung refers to as structural violence (1969, p. 171, also
developed in Akhtar and Moore, 2016) and a significant rise in the risks of psychosocial and physical
violence and harassment in the digitalized world of work. [View resource]
