Practice question · Multiple choice
A courier app sets routes, prices, and deactivation thresholds algorithmically; riders are self-employed contractors. Sociologically, the sharpest description is…
Hints
- Who structures every minute of the ride?
- No boss, yet total measurement.
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A. Formal freedom with algorithmic control
Why
The gig platform is Weber’s iron cage rebuilt in software: no foreman, yet every action metered, priced, and sanctioned. Contractor status supplies the freedom vocabulary while the algorithm supplies the control, which is exactly why courts keep having to decide what these workers are.
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