Beyond the Algorithm

Deepa Das Acevedo is a legal anthropologist and an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Alabama. Her scholarship draws on original fieldwork among gig workers, policymakers, and workers' advocates, and has been published in several law reviews. She co-chairs the Collaborative Research Network on Labor Rights of the Law and Society Association and chairs the Section on Law and Anthropology of the American Association of Law Schools.

1. The rise and scope of gig work regulation Deepa Das Acevedo; 2. An Uber ambivalence: employee status, worker perspectives, and regulation in the gig economy V. B. Dubal; 3. Invisible work, visible workers: visibility regimes in online platforms for domestic work Alexandra Mateescu and Julia Ticona; 4. The importance of qualitative research approaches to gig economy taxation Shu-Yi Oei and Diane M. Ring; 5. Just a gig? Sharing economy work and the implications for career trajectory Alexandrea J. Ravenelle; 6. Algorithmic management, employment, and the self in gig work Julia Tomassetti; 7. Regulating transportation systems without authority (or data): plugging an Uber- and Lyft-sized hole in city transportation planning and policy Zak Accuardi; 8. Words matter: how tech media helped write gig companies into existence Sam Harnett; 9. Rewriting the rules: gig companies' drive for labor deregulation Rebecca Smith and Maya Pinto; 10. What regulators could gain by listening to Rideshare drivers Harry Campbell; Index.