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August 15, 2026Labour & Industry a journal of the social and economic relations of work

Algorithmic management in the platform economy: a Spar-4 systematic review of control, autonomy and resistance

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DKDiksha KashyapMPMrinalini Pandey

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Overview

Systematic review uncovers rising technostress, burnout, and worker resistance in platform gig work, highlighting the need for ethical governance.

Key Points

  • Synthesize how algorithmic management reshapes worker autonomy, managerial control, and employee resistance across the platform economy.
  • Conducted a SPAR-4-SLR systematic literature review analyzing 62 peer-reviewed studies published between 2019 and 2025.
  • Applied bibliometric mapping and thematic coding structured around five core theoretical frameworks, including digital Taylorism and labor-process theory.
  • Identified pervasive technostress, data opacity, and worker burnout resulting from automated managerial surveillance and task assignment.
  • Documented emerging worker counter-strategies and collective resistance through algorithmic activism (algo-activism).
  • Identified critical evidence gaps concerning long-term worker health outcomes, platform governance ethics, and lived experiences in the Global South.

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Kashyap et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8019ce75c2e31742c85f63https://doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2026.2717005
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