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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Vallas, Steven P. (Steven Peter), 1951- (Editor), Kovalainen, Anne (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Research in the sociology of work.
Subjects:
Labor > Europe.
Labor > United States.
Work > Social aspects > Europe.
Work > Social aspects > United States.
Organizational effectiveness > Technological innovations.
Labor supply > Effect of technological innovations on.
Internet > Social aspects.
Travail > Europe.
Travail > États-Unis.
Travail > Aspect social > Europe.
Travail > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Efficacité organisationnelle > Innovations.
Marché du travail > Effets des innovations sur.
Internet > Aspect social.
Sociology: work & labour.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Internet > Social aspects
Labor
Labor supply > Effect of technological innovations on
Work > Social aspects
Europe
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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