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Date: Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:52 PM<br>Subject: [Networkedlabour] The Dynamics of Virtual Work: The Transformation of Labour in a Digital Global Economy<br>To: "<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>><br>
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Work Organisation Labour and Globalisation, Competition and Change and Triple C<br>
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To be held at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, September 3-5, 2014<br>
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Globalisation and technological change have transformed where people<br>
work, when and how. Digitisation of information has altered labour<br>
processes out of all recognition whilst telecommunications have<br>
enabled jobs to be relocated globally. But ICTs have also enabled the<br>
creation of entirely new types of ‘digital’ or ‘virtual’ labour, both<br>
paid and unpaid, shifting the borderline between ‘play’ and ‘work’ and<br>
creating new types of unpaid labour connected with the consumption and<br>
co-creation of goods and services. The implications of this are<br>
far-reaching, both for policy and for scholarship. The dynamics of<br>
these changes cannot be captured adequately within the framework of<br>
any single academic discipline. On the contrary, they can only be<br>
understood in the light of a combination of insights from fields<br>
including political economy, the sociology of work, organisational<br>
theory, economic geography, development studies, industrial relations,<br>
comparative social policy, communications studies, technology policy<br>
and gender studies<br>
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COST Action IS1202 brings together an international network of leading<br>
experts from 30 European Countries with researchers from other parts<br>
of the world to develop a multi-faceted approach to understanding<br>
these phenomena. This international conference will open up an<br>
interactive dialogue between scholars both inside and outside the<br>
network and will include both theoretical and empirical work. Themes<br>
include:<br>
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The new international division of labour<br>
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Changes in skills and occupational identities in the digital economy<br>
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Value creation in the Internet Age<br>
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Policy implications of virtual work.<br>
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