Yazar
Arif KOŞAR
Dr., Çalışma Ekonomisti (ORCID No: 0000-0003-4842-8877)

Özet

  • Dijital teknolojilerinin çoğunlukla göz ardı edilen boyutu, iş ve emek süreçlerinin denetimi ve bunun emekçiler üzerindeki etkileridir. Dijital denetim araçları çalışanların faaliyet ve hareketlerini izlemek, çalışma temposunu dikte etmek, davranışlarını tahmin etmek, verimliliklerini ölçmek ve görev tahsis etmek amacıyla kullanılmaktadır. İş faaliyetinde dijitalleşme aynı zamanda işin parçalara ayrılması, vasıfsızlaştırılması, ölçülebilir hale getirilmesi ve böylece emek süreci üzerindeki denetimin arttırılmasına zemin hazırlamaktadır. Makalede tekno-ilerlemeci ideolojinin etkisiyle görmezden gelinen, sermaye formundaki dijital teknolojilerin emek üzerindeki tahakkümü derinleştirme mekanizmalarını tartışılmaktır. Dijital denetim araçları, çalışma sahasında sermaye ve emekçiler arasındaki süregelen ilişkiye dahil olduğunda, mevcut yapısal eşitsizlikler ve güç ilişkilerine eklemlenmekte, etkileri de bu bağlamda vuku bulmaktadır. Denetim, tek taraflı değil karşılıklı bir ilişki olduğu için, denetim süreci sürekli olarak yeniden kurulan ve üzerinde mücadele edilen dinamik bir toplumsal sahada gerçekleşmektedir. Bu yaklaşımla, dijital teknolojiler, sıkıştırıldığı teknik alanın ötesinde politik alanın bir gündemi olarak değerlendirilmektedir.  

Summary

  • An often overlooked dimension of digital technologies is the control of work and labour processes, and its impact on workers. Digital control tools are used to monitor workers’ activities and movements, dictate the pace of work, predict their behaviour, measure their productivity and assign tasks. The digitalisation of work also paves the way for the fragmentation, de-skilling and quantification of work, thereby increasing control over the labour process. The paper discusses the mechanisms by which digital technologies, in the form of capital, deepen the domination of labour, which have been ignored due to the influence of techno-progressive ideology. When digital tools of control are incorporated into the ongoing relationship between capital and workers in the workplace, they are articulated within and have their effects on existing structural inequalities and power relations. Since control is not a unilateral but a reciprocal relationship, the process of control takes place in a dynamic social field that is constantly being reconstituted and contested. With this approach, digital technologies are considered as an agenda of the political field beyond the technical field in which they are compressed.     

Anahtar Sözcükler / Keywords

  • TR: Dijital teknolojiler, emek denetimi, gerçek tahakküm, yapay zekâ, dijital Taylorizm
    EN: Digital technologies, labour control, real subsumption, artificial intelligence, digital Taylorism

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Geliş Tarihi / Received Date

  • 15.04.2025

Kabul Tarihi / Accepted Date

  • 26.06.2025