Recent innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) have been at the core of massive technological changes that are transforming work. AI is now widely used to automate business processes and replace labour-intensive tasks while changing the skill demands for those that remain. AI-based tools are also deployed to invasively monitor worker conduct and to automate HR management processes.
Through the dual lens of comparative labour law and employment relations research, the articles in this special issue of Transfer investigate the role of collective bargaining and government policy in shaping strategies to deploy new digital and AI-based technologies at work. Together, they give new insight into the conditions for encouraging broadly shared benefits from technological innovation while mitigating harm to workers and society.
Valerio De Stefano and Virginia Doellgast
The full issue can be found → here
Co-editors: Philippe Pochet, Vera Šćepanović, Maarten Keune
Managing Editor: Marina Luttrell
Contents
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Introduction to the Transfer special issue. Regulating AI at work: labour relations, automation, and algorithmic management - Valerio De Stefano, Virginia Doellgast
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Algorithmic management and collective bargaining - Valerio De Stefano, Simon Taes
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Worker voice and algorithmic management in post-Brexit Britain - Philippa Collins, Joe Atkinson
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Promoting human-centred AI in the workplace. Trade unions and their strategies for regulating the use of AI in Germany - Martin Krzywdzinski, Detlef Gerst, Florian Butollo
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Governing the work-related risks of AI: implications for the German government and trade unions - Anke Hassel, Didem Özkiziltan
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It takes two to code: a comparative analysis of collective bargaining and artificial intelligence - Oscar Molina et al.
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Negotiating limits on algorithmic management in digitalised services: cases from Germany and Norway - Virginia Doellgast, Ines Wagner, Sean O’Brad
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Determinants of union strategies towards the twin digital and green transitions in the German and Belgian automotive industry - Valeria Pulignano, Marco Hauptmeier, Dorien Frans
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Digitalisation of work in aerospace manufacturing: expanding union frames and repertoires of action in Belgium, Canada and Denmark - Julie M É Garneau, Sara Pérez-Lauzon, Christian Lévesque
