A Capability Approach to worker dignity under Algorithmic Management.

This paper proposes a conceptual framework to study and evaluate the impact of 'Algorithmic Management' (AM) on worker dignity. While the literature on AM addresses many concerns that relate to the dignity of workers, a shared understanding of what worker dignity means, and a framework to study it, in the context of software algorithms at work is lacking. We advance a conceptual framework based on a Capability Approach (CA) as a route to understanding worker dignity under AM.

Class voting and Left-Right party positions: A comparative study of 15 Western democracies, 1960-2005.

Studies that explain the class voting have often focused on "bottom-up" social factors, but paid little attention to 'top-down' political factors. We argue that party positions on left-right ideology have an effect on the strength of class voting. This argument is tested by estimating the impact of the Left-Right party positions on the class-vote association through a Two-Step Hierarchical analysis of integrated data from 15 countries in Western-Europe, the United States and Australia (1960-2005) supplemented with data from the Comparative Manifesto Project.