Algorithmic Management: A Radical Approach

This article develops a radical legal critique of algorithmic management with a view to providing strategic guidance to radicals seeking to navigate the problems caused by algorithmic management in a way that contributes to their wider, radical, political objectives. Contributing to a “radical” tradition in legal scholarship, the article’s approach is distinctive for evaluating the merits and demerits of algorithmic management by reference to its impact on the conditions for radical political struggle, and for taking seriously the implications of the law’s structural relationship with the capitalist system when it comes to whether, and if so, how, law might be mobilized in ways that can meaningfully remedy these effects or improve these conditions more generally.