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Work and labor in the digital age / edited by Steve P. Vallas, and Anne Kovalainen.
Lippincott Library HD6951 .R47 v.1 (1981)-v.37
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Research in the sociology of work ; 0277-2833 v. 33.
- Research in the sociology of work, 0277-2833 ; volume 33
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor--Europe.
- Labor.
- Labor--United States.
- Work--Social aspects--Europe.
- Work.
- Work--Social aspects--United States.
- Organizational effectiveness--Technological innovations.
- Organizational effectiveness.
- Labor supply--Effect of technological innovations on.
- Labor supply.
- Internet--Social aspects.
- Internet.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing, [2019]
- Summary:
- 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 consequences for workers, their families, and the institutional structure that characterizes capitalist societies. A key driver of these changes has been the digital revolution and the rapid proliferation of the gig economy. Together with social network sites for hiring, the spread of robotics, and the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning, they leave virtually no occupation untouched.
- Contents:
- Prelims
- Introduction: Taking stock of the digital revolution
- Chapter 1: Work and value creation in the platform economy
- Chapter 2: Technology-driven task replacement and the future of employment
- Chapter 3: Platforms at work: automated hiring platforms and other new intermediaries in the organization of work
- Chapter 4: Black holes and purple squirrels: a tale of two online labor markets
- Chapter 5: Brave new digital work? New forms of performance control in crowdwork
- Chapter 6: Labor market inclusion through predatory capitalism? The "sharing economy," diversity, and the crisis of social reproduction in the Belgian coordinated market economy
- Chapter 7: Work-games in the gig-economy: a case study of uber drivers in the city of monterrey, Mexico
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781789735857
- 1789735858
- 9781789735871
- 1789735874
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