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Algorithms have become the focus of discussions on technology whether involving the role of social networks in our everyday life or the promise of a generalized coding of various occupations. This paper intends to unravel the importance of algorithms for capitalism from the advent of the Third Industrial Revolution in three functions: (1) to expand the everyday life colonization by the market and by the State, a task formerly exercised only by the cultural industry, (2) increase the limits of the subsumption of labor by capital, and (3) improving existing forms of precarious work. Finally, we present possible solutions for working class organization of the working in the contemporary scenario of precariousness and withdrawal of labor rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]