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Volume 7 No 1: Working online, living offline: labour in the Internet Age
It is often argued that ‘digital labour’ or ‘virtual work’ is fundamentally different from traditional forms of labour carried out offline, with ‘work’ and ‘play’ collapsed together to become ‘playbour’ and new forms of value creation that do not fit traditional economic models. But however ‘immaterial’ their labour processes, workers still have bodies that become exhausted and require feeding and housing in the offline economy. This collection takes a critical look at how online work can be theorised and categorised (including revisiting concepts of ‘deskilling’ developed in the 1970s). Drawing on in-depth empirical research in Europe, Latin America and North America it also analyses how the development of online work has meshed with broader trends in organisational restructuring to erode traditional employment norms, time structures and models of behaviour at work, placing stresses on daily life and raising new contradictions in the real world.
Contents
Working online, living offline: labour in the Internet Age
by Ursula Huws
Web, value and labour
by Sabine Pfeiffer
Towards a taxonomy of virtual work
by Kaire Holts
Distance learning and the transformation of working conditions in teaching: ICTs and the commodification of education in Brazil
by Simone Wolff and Sergio Antunes de Almeida
Forced to go virtual?: Distributed cooperation of small software firms
by Annika Schönauer, Ruth Kasper, Jörg Flecker and Ursula Holtgrewe
IT firms’ working time (de)regulation model: a by-product of risk management strategy and project-based work management
by Marie-Josée Legault
‘A science to it’: flexible time and flexible subjectivity in the digital workplace
by Frederick Pitts
Labour relations and globalisation: an analysis of ethical dilemmas from ‘Le Couperet’
by Fábio Francisco de Araujo and Patrícia Amélia Tomei
Automating amateurs in the 3D printing community: connecting the dots between ‘deskilling’ and ‘user-friendliness’
by Johan Söderberg
Review: Digital Connect
by Eran Fisher
Review: recent publications on the commodification of public services
by Bryan Evans.
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ABOUT THE JOURNAL
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation is an independent, international inter-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal, founded in 2006.Each issue is devoted to a specific theme. This thematic coherence enables each issue to be published not only as a journal issue but also as a book, published by Merlin Press, enabling it to reach a broader audience than is usual with an academic journal. More information about the aims of the journal, its editorial board and the contents of past issues is available at MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "visitor.benchmarkemail.com" claiming to be www.analyticapublications.co.uk |
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