Selected publications, 2015–2021
Books and standalone reports
| Title | Working on Digital Labour Platforms: A Trade Union Guide for Trainers on Crowd-, App-, and Platform-Based Work |
| Authors | Hannah Johnston, Alina Caia, Michael 'Six' Silberman, Monica Ceremigna, Diego Hernandez, and Valerica Dumitrescu |
| Publication Info | Brussels: European Trade Union Institute, 2021, 104 pp. |
| Link | ETUI website  |
| Title | Using GDPR to improve legal clarity and working conditions on digital labour platforms: Can a code of conduct as provided for by Article 40 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) help workers and socially responsible platforms? |
| Authors | Michael 'Six' Silberman and Hannah Johnston |
| Publication Info | Brussels: European Trade Union Institute, 2020, 36 pp. |
| Link | ETUI website |
| Title | Befragung der IG Metall: Selbstständige in der Corona-Krise |
| English Title | IG Metall survey results: Self-employed Germans in the Coronavirus crisis |
| Authors | Vanessa Barth, Michael 'Six' Silberman, Ane Mojica, and Christiane Benner |
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Frankfurt am Main: IG Metall, 2020, 15 pp. Engl. trans. by Michael 'Six' Silberman, 9 pp. |
| Title | Digital Labour Platforms and the Future of Work: Towards Decent Work in the Online World |
| Authors | Janine Berg, Uma Rani, Marianne Furrer, Ellie Harmon, and Michael 'Six' Silberman |
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Geneva: International Labour Office / International Labour Organization. Published 2018, 134 pp. |
| Link | ILO website |
| Title | Regulating digital platforms: toward transparency, accountability, and fair competition in a global digital economy |
| Authors | Sara C. Kingsley, Michael 'Six' Silberman, and Vanessa Barth |
| Publication Info | Frankfurt am Main: IG Metall, 2019, 25 pp. |
| Link | PDF |
| Title | Frankfurt Declaration on Platform-Based Work: Proposals for Platform Operators, Clients, Policy Makers, Workers, and Worker Organizations |
| Signatory Organizations | Austrian Chamber of Labour (Arbeiterkammer), Austrian Trade Union Confederation (ÖGB), HK Denmark, IG Metall, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 117, Service Employees International Union, and Unionen |
| Lead authors (IG Metall) | Michael 'Six' Silberman, Vanessa Barth, Robert Fuss, and Christiane Benner |
| Technical advisors | Miriam Cherry, David Durward, Thomas Klebe, Tobias Kämpf, Janine Berg, Valerio De Stefano, Katsutoshi Kezuka, Wilma Liebman, Trebor Scholz, Peter Ahrenfeldt Schrøder |
| Publication Info | Frankfurt am Main: IG Metall, 2016, 10 pp. |
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Peer-reviewed journal and law review articles
| Title | “Environment-selected directors”: An interactive simulation experiment of environmental representation on corporate boards |
| Authors | Bill Tomlinson, M Six Silberman, Andrew W Torrance, Nick Nikols, Rebecca W Black, Kurt Squire, Paramdeep S Atwal, Ameya N Mandalik, Sahil Railkar, and Mary Kate Workman |
| Publication Info | Ecological Economics Vol. 178, December 2020 |
| Link |
Ecological Economics on ScienceDirect (full text) Preprint on SSRN
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| Title | Accountability with a Capital ‘Ism’: A Computational Simulation of the Accountable Capitalism Act vs. Delaware Corporate Law |
| Authors | Bill Tomlinson, M Six Silberman, Andrew W Torrance, Yaqi Xie, Rebecca W Black, Kurt Squire, Paramdeep S Atwal, Ameya N Mandalik, and Sahil Railkar |
| Publication Info | Ohio State Technology Law Journal Vol. 17 No. 1, 2021, pp. 75–121 (47 pp.). |
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Full text (via Ohio State University Library Knowledge Bank) Local copy (PDF)
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| Title | Judging Corporate Directors by the Companies They Keep: Results from an Interactive Simulation about the Motivations of Corporate Directors |
| Authors | Bill Tomlinson, Andrew W Torrance, Rebecca W Black, M Six Silberman, Yaqi Xie, and Paramdeep S Atwal |
| Publication Info | Univeristy of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Public Affairs Vol. 6 No. 1, November 2020, 39 pp. |
| Link |
U. Penn J. Law & Pub. Aff. website (full text) Preprint on SSRN
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| Title | Operating an Employer Reputation System: Lessons from Turkopticon, 2008–2015 |
| Authors | M Six Silberman and Lilly Irani |
| Publication Info | Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal Vol. 37, pp. 505-542 (36 pp.). |
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Preprint on SSRN Preprint (local PDF)
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| Title | Information systems for the age of consequences |
| Author | M Six Silberman |
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Originally presented at the First Workshop on Computing Within Limits. Collected in First Monday Vol. 20, No. 8, 3 Aug 2015. 6 pp. |
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First Monday (HTML, full text)
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Peer-reviewed conference publications
| Title | A Participatory Simulation of the Accountable Capitalism Act |
| Authors | Bill Tomlinson, M Six Silberman, Andrew W Torrance, Kurt D Squire, Paramdeep S Atwal, Ameya N Mandalik, Sahil Railkar, and Rebecca W Black |
| Publication Info | Proc. CHI 2020 (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems “CHI”), 13 pp. |
| Link |
ACM Digital Library
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| Title | Agent-based Modelling and Participatory Simulation: Tools for Policy Analysis after the Financial Crisis? |
| Authors | M Six Silberman, Bill Tomlinson, and Andrew W Torrance |
| Publication Info | Presented at the 6th Regulating for Decent Work Conference, 8–10 Jul 2019, International Labour Organization, Geneva |
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| Title | Exploring Potential Policy Uses of the Genuine Progress Indicator |
| Authors | M Six Silberman and Bonnie Nardi |
| Publication Info | Presented at the 6th Regulating for Decent Work Conference, 8–10 Jul 2019, International Labour Organization, Geneva |
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| Title | Reading Elinor Ostrom In Silicon Valley: Exploring Institutional Diversity on the Internet |
| Authors | M Six Silberman |
| Publication Info | Proceedings of at the 19th International Conference on Supporting Group Work, Design Fictions Track, November 2016, pp. 363-368. |
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ACM Digital Library Preprint (PDF)
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Dissertation
| Title | Human-Centered Computing and the Future of Work: Lessons from Mechanical Turk and Turkopticon, 2008–2015 |
| Authors | M Six Silberman |
| Publication Info | Dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2015, 195 pp. |
| Dissertation Committee |
Bill Tomlinson, Co-Chair Bonnie Nardi, Co-Chair Judith Gregory |
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