Virtual Workers and the Global Labour Market
The emerging world of virtual work is not tied to physical workplaces or particular locations, but is dispersed and footloose. It is frequently precarious, and blurs the boundaries between work and non-work, production and consumption. Contributors to thi
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Dynamics of Virtual Work
Series Editors: Ursula Huws, Professor of Labour and Globalization at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Rosalind Gill, Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at City University, London, UK. Technological change has transformed where people work, when and how. Digitisation of information has altered labour processes out of all recognition whilst telecommunications have enabled jobs to be relocated globally. ICTs have also enabled the creation of entirely new types of 'digital' or 'virtual' labour, both paid and unpaid, shifting the borderline between 'play' and 'work' and creating new types of unpaid labour connected with the consumption and co-creation of goods and services. This affects private life as well as transforming the nature of work and people experience the impacts differently depending on their gender, their age, where they live and what work they do. Aspects of these changes have been studied separately by many different academic experts however up till now a cohesive overarching analytical framework has been lacking. Drawing on a major, high-profile COST Action (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Dynamics of Virtual Work, this series will bring together leading international experts from a wide range of disciplines including political economy, labour sociology, economic geography, communications studies, technology, gender studies, social psychology, organisation studies, industrial relations and development studies to explore the transformation of work and labour in the Internet Age. The series will allow researchers to speak across disciplinary boundaries, national borders, theoretical and political vocabularies, and different languages to understand and make sense of contemporary transformations in work and social life more broadly. The book series will build on and extend this, offering a new, important and intellectually exciting intervention into debates about work and labour, social theory, digital culture, gender, class, globalisation and economic, social and political change.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14954
Juliet Webster • Keith Randle Editors
Virtual Workers and the Global Labour Market
Editors Juliet Webster Work and Equality Research London, United Kingdom
Keith Randle Hertfordshire Business School University of Hertfordshire United Kingdom
Dynamics of Virtual Work
ISBN 978-1-137-47918-1 ISBN 978-1-137-47919-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-47919-8
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