Overview
- Addresses a key trend in work and employment, shedding light on future trends
- Analyses a wide variety of policy disciplines and methods
- Brings together leading research and practitioners in the field
Part of the book series: Dynamics of Virtual Work (DVW)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Measuring Virtual Work
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Discourses and Principles of Regulation
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Sharing, Cooperating and Streaming in the Digital Economy
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Organizing, Protecting and Regulating Labor
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About this book
This collection presents an array of policy debates and implications emerging from virtual work. The authors cover a range of areas, including: conceptual debates, measuring virtual work; discourses and levels of policy intervention; the role of the sharing and collaborative economy; and resultant challenges for organized labour, law and regulation.
The authors of the chapters analyse the ways in which processes of digitalization leading to virtual work impact so many aspects of our lives: the way we buy, sell, network, communicate, participate, create, consume, and, of course, the way we work. In turn they focus on the subsequent implications for the future of work as well as the viability of existing social protection systems.
The developments examined here are salient for both policy stakeholders and for the academic community in areas such as labour sociology, industrial relations, gender studies, political economy, and economic geography.
Reviews
“Exploring the opportunities and challenges that digitalization brings for working life, this book raises some of the key questions and provides some pragmatic guidance to key social actors, as they need to rethink their own roles and the rules under which they operate.” (Juan Menéndez-Valdés, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions)
“This book contributes to an understanding of the processes leading to policy challenges and identifies new ways in which progress in policy formulation and regulation can be made.” (Jan Drahokoupil, European Trade Union Institute)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pamela Meil is Senior Research Fellow and member of the board of governors at the Institute for Social Science Research, Germany.
Vassil Kirov is Associate Professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Associate Researcher at ETUI.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Policy Implications of Virtual Work
Editors: Pamela Meil, Vassil Kirov
Series Title: Dynamics of Virtual Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52057-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-52056-8Published: 18 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84809-9Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52057-5Published: 07 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-9290
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9304
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 301
Number of Illustrations: 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Policy, Sociology of Work, Media Sociology, Labour Law/Social Law