# Site

## Pages

- [Page not found](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/404/): That page doesn't exist, or it has moved since you last looked
- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Redesign the dispatch](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/assessments/redesign-the-dispatch/): The capstone — propose a dispatch and pay algorithm of your own, and defend the fairness tradeoffs it makes, informed by all three regimes studied this semester
- [Same algorithm, different country](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/assessments/same-algorithm-different-country/): A comparative essay putting China's platform-labour arrangements next to Australia's Closing Loopholes reforms and the EU's Platform Work Directive
- [The system, up close](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/assessments/system-up-close/): A close analytical essay on one specific mechanism in China's delivery platforms — the piece of the dispatch system your weekly checkpoints have been circling
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [The algorithm has a boss too](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/lectures/week-01/): What "algorithmic management" means as a term of art, and how the next eleven weeks are shaped around one industry's version of it
- [The mechanics of dispatch](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/lectures/week-02/): Inside the three models that actually run a delivery platform — ETA prediction, order batching, and rating thresholds
- [Trapped in the System — the case that named the problem](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/lectures/week-03/): Close reading of the 2020 Renwu magazine feature that gave "trapped in the system" its name, and what changed after it went viral
- [Algorithmic control theory](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/lectures/week-04/): Two competing accounts of how software disciplines a workforce — surveillance and gamification — and where each one actually fits
- [Worker resistance](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/lectures/week-05/): How riders route around the system that routes them — GPS spoofing, order refusal patterns, and WeChat groups that coordinate informal slowdowns
- [Platform economics](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/lectures/week-06/): The subsidy-war years, and why venture-funded growth makes labour cost the one line item everyone treats as adjustable
- [The legal classification problem](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/lectures/week-07/): Employee or contractor — the one legal question that quietly determines almost everything else this course has covered
- [Australia, before the reform](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/lectures/week-08/): Uber Eats, DoorDash and Menulog under the old rules, and the shape of the gap the 2024 reform was written to close
- [The Closing Loopholes reforms](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/lectures/week-09/): Australia's 2024 "employee-like worker" minimum standards, and what power they actually give the Fair Work Commission
- [A typology of three regimes](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/lectures/week-10/): Adding the EU's Platform Work Directive as a third case, and building a typology across China, Australia and the EU
- [Design justice](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/lectures/week-11/): A method for the capstone — designing dispatch systems with the people who bear their risk, instead of for them
- [Capstone studio](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/lectures/week-12/): Work time and peer defence rehearsal for the redesign brief, and a look back at how the semester's opening claim held up
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Chajie Zhou](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/people/chajie-zhou/): Founding convenor. Spent four years building dispatch and ETA models at a delivery platform before leaving to study what those models do to the people underneath them.
- [Sichen Ye](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/people/sichen-ye/): Tutor. Previously a research assistant on a Fair Work Commission gig-economy inquiry; runs the comparative-regulation weeks and the capstone studio.
- [Policies](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/policies/): The course-wide rules for conduct, communication, attendance, academic integrity, extensions and appeals.
- [Dispatch lab](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/sessions/02-dispatch-lab/): A hands-on session reverse-engineering a real delivery app's ETA and batching behaviour from the outside
- [Close-reading the system](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/sessions/03-close-reading-the-system/): A structured close read of the Trapped in the System case, separating checkable claims from testimony
- [Control theory workshop](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/sessions/04-control-theory-workshop/): Applying Lee et al.'s directing/evaluating/disciplining taxonomy to real platform mechanisms
- [Resistance tactics seminar](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/sessions/05-resistance-tactics-seminar/): Comparing individual and collective rider workarounds, and what each provokes from the platform
- [Unit economics clinic](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/sessions/06-unit-economics-clinic/): Building a single order's cost breakdown by hand from published fee schedules and commission rates
- [Classification moot](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/sessions/07-classification-moot/): A structured moot arguing both sides of China's individual-business-owner registration mechanism
- [Australia case clinic](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/sessions/08-australia-case-clinic/): Working through Gupta v Uber Eats, a pre-reform Fair Work Commission jurisdiction contest, in detail
- [Reform briefing](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/sessions/09-reform-briefing/): Mapping the Closing Loopholes minimum-standards order onto the mechanisms studied earlier in semester
- [Typology workshop](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/sessions/10-typology-workshop/): Workshopping comparison axes for the same-algorithm-different-country essay in small groups
- [Design studio](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-chajie0824/sessions/11-design-studio/): Choosing and specifying the mechanism each student will redesign for the capstone