[P2P-F] Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: [CPERN] CfP The digital economy and its implications for labour

[Michel Bauwens]

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*From:* Jan Drahokoupil <jan.drahokoupil at GMAIL.COM>
*Date:* 29 Jan 2016 12:02:21 GMT+1
*To:* POLITICAL-ECONOMY-RN at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
*Subject:* *[CPERN] CfP The digital economy and its implications for labour*
*Reply-To:* Jan Drahokoupil <jan.drahokoupil at GMAIL.COM>


http://trs.sagepub.com/site/includefiles/Transfer_CfP_digital_economy.pdf

Call for contributions to the special issue of
*Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research*



*The* *digital* *economy* *and **its implications for labour*

Edited by Maria Jepsen & Jan Drahokoupil


The themed issue addresses the implications of the digital economy on jobs,
distribution of productivity gains, the dynamics of job destruction and job
creation, and in particular the possible recast of the labour market in the
light of the ‘gig’ or ‘sharing’ economy. The research on labour aspects of
digitalization is growing rapidly but its findings are by no means
unequivocal. Many are predicting a transformative change in the global
distribution of jobs and wealth as well as with regard to what jobs will
exist. However, the research looking at the place and role of trade unions
is embryonic at best. This special issue aims at clarifying what a future
labour market might look like and what policy choices are crucial in shaping
 the outcomes.

We thus encourage submission of proposals for contributions that address a
wide range of issues related to labour implications of digitalization. At
the same time, we are actively seeking papers that address the following
questions and themes:
·  *Is this time different? *Assessment of the specificity of the fourth
industrial revolution in comparison with the previous ones
·  *Who** is going to end up unemployed? *The evolution of demand for skills
 and tasks on European labour markets
·  *What* *are the lessons from the new economy champions? *Case studies of
multinational companies such as Amazon that ride the digitalization wave
while exploiting the diversity in labour markets and industrial relations in
 Europe
·  *How* *to*
*make the welfare states and labour-market regulation fit for purpose? *The
future of insurance systems in the era of gig employment, the role of
basic income
schemes and other policy responses
·  *Are* *we all going to end up self-employed? *The extent to which the
platforms are transforming labour markets and their potential to undermine
employment relations
·  *Can technology give trade unions a new life line? *Existing strategies
of trade unions in using the new technology, possibilities that the
technology offers to trade unions, the digital era as an opportunity for
trade unions to forge a new role in societies, organizing self-employed
workers
·  *Is* *this* *the* *end* *of* *manufacturing* *and* *global* *supply*
*chains?* Shift from manufacturing and supplier relations to services and 3D
 printing, shift from trade in goods to trade in information, trends in
 re-shoring, production relocation

Proposals for contributions including abstracts of 400 words should be sent
to the Editor of Transfer Maria Jepsen (mjepsen at etui.org) before
*1 March 2016*. Full manuscripts will be due by 7 July 2016. The articles
will be subject to double-blind peer-review before being accepted for
publication. In general, comparative articles will be preferred.
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