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Global Labor: Algocratic Modes of Organization

A. Aneesh · Sociological Theory 27(4), 347–370 · 2009

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Type: Article
Author: A. Aneesh
Identifier: DOI 10.1111/j.1467-9558.2009.01352.x
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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TheoryDanaher argued that the growing reliance of public decision-making on algorithms poses a significant threat to its legitimacy, a 'threat of algocracy' modelled on Estlund's threat of epistocracy, and that neither resistance nor accommodation is likely to remove it without limiting opportunities for human participation.