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Resilience through resistance: the role of worker agency in navigating algorithmic control
Originally published 2026-01-16 · Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/frai.2025.1600044 ↗
AI / system type
Algorithmic control, rating systems and platform restrictions across multiple labor sectors
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: Algorithmic control, rating systems and platform restrictions across multiple labor sectors. Algorithmic management/control is not assumed to be machine learning or generative AI.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings worker agency and resistance to algorithmic restrictions into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers structured literature and survey synthesis evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is worker agency and resistance to algorithmic restrictions. Source setting or population: Academic literature and ILO platform-worker surveys conducted between 2017 and 2023. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
What choices remain when a platform changes the rules of my working day?
This structured literature and survey synthesis examines worker agency and resistance to algorithmic restrictions. Its TRICK home is Independence, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
Academic literature and ILO platform-worker surveys conducted between 2017 and 2023
Age / stage: Workplace literature or conceptual analysis; no single child age range
Read with three questions
- What choices remain when a platform changes the rules of my working day?
- What do this study’s design and population — Academic literature and ILO platform-worker surveys conducted between 2017 and 2023 — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering worker agency and resistance to algorithmic restrictions, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
A cross-sector synthesis does not demonstrate that every resistance strategy succeeds; platform types and local labor protections differ.
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Morgan Williams; Uma Rani (2026). Resilience through resistance: the role of worker agency in navigating algorithmic control Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2025.1600044
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