Agent-based modelling of worker exploitation : slave from the machine / Thomas Chesney.
2021
HT871 .C44 2021eb
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Title
Agent-based modelling of worker exploitation : slave from the machine / Thomas Chesney.
Author
Chesney, Thomas.
ISBN
9783030751340 (electronic bk.)
3030751341 (electronic bk.)
3030751333
9783030751333
3030751341 (electronic bk.)
3030751333
9783030751333
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 171 pages : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-75134-0 doi
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HT871 .C44 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.11/734
Summary
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 in these areas. He explores the philosophy, application and practice of agent modelling through the popular and free software NetLogo. This topical book is grounded in the technology needed to address the messy, chaotic, real world problems that humanity faces in this case the serious problem of abuse at work but equally in the social sciences which are needed to avoid the unintended consequences inherent to human responses. It includes a short but extensive NetLogo guide which readers can use to quickly learn this software and go on to develop complex models. This is an important book for students and researchers of computational social science and others interested in agent-based modelling.
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Frontiers in sociology and social research ; v. 5. 2523-3424
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Table of Contents
Part I: Philosophy
Chapter 1. Computing Slavery
Chapter 2. A Philosophy of Agent Based Modelling
Chapter 3. The Emergence of Slavery
Chapter 4. A Culture of Acceptance
Part II : Application
Chapter 5. Human Trafficking
Chapter 6. Identifying Abuses
Chapter 7. How to Free a Slave
Part III: Practice
Chapter 8. Designing an Agent Model
Chapter 9. Statistics-for and Statistics-with Agent Models
Chapter 10. Final Thoughts.
Chapter 1. Computing Slavery
Chapter 2. A Philosophy of Agent Based Modelling
Chapter 3. The Emergence of Slavery
Chapter 4. A Culture of Acceptance
Part II : Application
Chapter 5. Human Trafficking
Chapter 6. Identifying Abuses
Chapter 7. How to Free a Slave
Part III: Practice
Chapter 8. Designing an Agent Model
Chapter 9. Statistics-for and Statistics-with Agent Models
Chapter 10. Final Thoughts.