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Work and labor in the digital age /

This volume presents the most recent studies of work and labor in the digital age as it unfolds in both Europe and the United States. One of the critical questions facing modernity concerns the reconfiguration of paid employment, which has been subject to wholesale changes that have widespread conse...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Vallas, Steven P. (Steven Peter), 1951- (Editor ), Kovalainen, Anne (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2019]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Research in the sociology of work.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : taking stock of the digital revolution / Steve P. Vallas and Anne Kovalainen
  • Work and value creation in the platform economy / Martin Kenney and John Zysman
  • Technology-driven task replacement and the future of employment / Jerry A. Jacobs and Rachel Karen
  • Platforms at work : automated hiring platforms and other new intermediaries in the organization of work / Ifeoma Ajunwa and Daniel Greene
  • Black holes and purple squirrels : a tale of two online labor markets / Steve McDonald, Amanda K. Damarin, Jenelle Lawhorne and Annika Wilcox
  • Brave new digital work? New forms of performance control in crowdwork / Christine Gerber and Martin Krzywdzinski
  • Labor market inclusion through predatory capitalism? The "sharing economy," diversity, and the crisis of social reproduction in the Belgian coordinated market economy / Patrizia Zanoni
  • Work-games in the gig-economy : a case study of Uber drivers in the city of Monterrey, Mexico / Mariana Manriquez.