AI, Platforms, and the Future of Work : Programme

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Parallel break-out rooms; the conference attendees are free to choose the panel they want to attend

Break-out room 1: Collective Action in Platform Work

Chair: Oguz Alyanak, University of Oxford

Under the Radar Female Migrants in Spain as a User Moral Economy: Collective Agency in the Platform Economy

Miren Gutierrez, Adriana Calvo, Antonia Moreno Cano

Invisible Labor, Visible Inequality – Gender, Precarity, and the Governance Gap in Digital Platform Work in Albania

Entela Kaleshi, Zyhra Gripshi

Voices from the Road: Bridging the Gap Between Platform Work Policy and Worker Experience

Martijn Mulller

Economic Disempowerment and Workplace Harassment: A Critical Analysis of Female Gig Workers in Indonesia

Arif Novianto . Anindya Dessi Wulansari

Break-out room 2: Human Agency in Algorithmic Work Environments

Chair: Cristina Alaimo, ESSEC Business School

Being a Woman in the Data Supply Chain

Pedro Salguero, Carlota Carretero García

Bias in Freelance Marketplaces: Algorithmic vs Human-Mediated Decision-Making

Vladimer Kobayashii, Jovana Karanovic

A correspondence view of employment relations vis-à-vis people analytics: High-skilled contractors’ trajectories in the European automotive industry

Marilyn Poon

When Technology Undermines Leadership: How Augmentation Reduces Sense of Agency and Impairs Responsible Decision-Making

Alice Rickert, Antoinette Weibel, Nicola Pless

Break-out room 3: Reimagining Labour in the Age of Generative AI

Chair: Katharina Cepa, VU Amsterdam

The Worker In The Digital Plat-firm and The Gen AI Challenge

Nicolò Boggian

Digitalisation of Onboarding: A Case Study to Investigate the Impact of Virtual Reality Technology on Employees Social Interactions and Information Seeking during Job-Onboarding

Ewenam Gbormittah

Digital Surplus: Reclaiming Employee Ownership in the Age of AI

José Luis Gallegos Quezada

From Digital Divide to AI Divide: Reimagining Women’s Participation in India’s AI Future

Manya Aggarwal

Understanding the Impact of Generative AI on Work: Evidence from Literature and Case Studies

Carine van Oosteren, Sandra Mathijssen, Ellemarijn de Geit, Anastasia Yagafarova, Wouter van der Torre

Break-out room 4: Regulating Algorithms in Workplaces

Chair: Guido Smorto, University of Palermo

AI Agents and the Collapse of Work: A Call for a New Social Contract

Ana Catarina De Alenca

How to implement the Article 20 of the Platform Work Directive on “Communication Channels”?

Franziska Loschret, Anna-Elisabeth Hampel, Maria Ebenhöh

Algorithmic Discrimination in AI Hiring: Legal Precedents, Empirical Evidence, and Regulatory Responses in the Platform Economy

Aviral Kaintura

Algorithms as Institutions: A Viable Path for AI Systems Regulation? A Reflection from the Sociology of Risk

Paula Menezes, Flora Ariza