Agent-Based Modelling of Worker Exploitation: Slave from the Machine

by Thomas Chesney

Book Overview

This book illustrates the potential for computer simulation in the study of modern slavery and worker abuse, and by extension in all social issues. It lays out a philosophy of how agent-based modelling can be used in the social sciences. In addressing modern slavery, Chesney considers precarious work that is vulnerable to abuse, like sweat-shop labour and prostitution, and shows how agent modelling can be used to study, understand and fight abuse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030751368
• ISBN13: 9783030751364
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"