"This book examines how organizations' use of algorithms is reconfiguring our understanding of control for millions of high-skilled workers who use online labor market platforms (e.g., Upwork, TopCoder, Gigster) to find their work. The book investigates how algorithms enable platforms to control workers within an environment in which organizations embed the rules and guidelines for how workers should behave in opaque algorithms that shift without providing notice, explanation, or recourse for workers"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction -- A new labor market paradigm -- Ratings : the driving force of algorithmic control on talentfinder -- Laying the foundations of the invisible cage -- Inside the invisible cage -- The cascading consequences of living inside the invisible cage -- Reputational interdependence : why workers remain inside the invisible cage -- Implications for theory and practice -- The future of control in the age of algorithms -- Methodological appendix.