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Effective labour protection against algorithmic management requires moving beyond traditional employment-status classification toward control-sensitive and technology-sensitive frameworks that address mediated autonomy and algorithmic subordination. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Analyze how compounding pressures like algorithmic management erode traditional labour protections and evaluate regulatory responses to non-standard employment in China and the European Union.

September 8, 2026LawsOpen Access

Reordering Labour Rights Under Compound Pressure: Algorithmic Management, Mediated Autonomy, and Legal Innovation in China

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YWYuqiao Wang NHNaixin Hu

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Comparative legal analysis demonstrates how algorithmic management reshapes labour subordination in platform workers, highlighting the need for technology-sensitive rights.

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Analyze how compounding pressures like algorithmic management erode traditional labour protections and evaluate regulatory responses to non-standard employment in China and the European Union.
Applied conceptual frameworks from the philosophy of technology and classificatory looping theory to model workplace algorithmic control.
Conducted a comparative policy analysis evaluating China's regulatory model for non-standard employment against the European Union's status-and-algorithm framework.
Demonstrated that automated systems establish mediated autonomy and algorithmic subordination via asymmetric data flows, metric rankings, and code-based decisions.
Identified biometric surveillance and affective computing as mechanisms expanding managerial reach into workers' physiological signals and inferred emotions.
Established that effective labour protections must transcend binary employment status to implement control-sensitive rules, including transparency mandates, human review, and contestation mechanisms.

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Wang et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa0091858e84d0ff5b47b42 https://doi.org/10.3390/laws15050111

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September 8, 2026LawsOpen Access

Reordering Labour Rights Under Compound Pressure: Algorithmic Management, Mediated Autonomy, and Legal Innovation in China

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Authors

YWYuqiao Wang NHNaixin Hu

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Overview

Comparative legal analysis demonstrates how algorithmic management reshapes labour subordination in platform workers, highlighting the need for technology-sensitive rights.

Key Points

Analyze how compounding pressures like algorithmic management erode traditional labour protections and evaluate regulatory responses to non-standard employment in China and the European Union.
Applied conceptual frameworks from the philosophy of technology and classificatory looping theory to model workplace algorithmic control.
Conducted a comparative policy analysis evaluating China's regulatory model for non-standard employment against the European Union's status-and-algorithm framework.
Demonstrated that automated systems establish mediated autonomy and algorithmic subordination via asymmetric data flows, metric rankings, and code-based decisions.
Identified biometric surveillance and affective computing as mechanisms expanding managerial reach into workers' physiological signals and inferred emotions.
Established that effective labour protections must transcend binary employment status to implement control-sensitive rules, including transparency mandates, human review, and contestation mechanisms.

Cite This Study

Wang et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa0091858e84d0ff5b47b42 https://doi.org/10.3390/laws15050111

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