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Labor in the Global Digital Economy
For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It's a situation that we increasingly take for granted in …
Working at the Interface
Call centres illustrate the consequences of globalisation for labour perhaps more clearly than any other form of employment. Call-centre workers sit at the interface between the …
Working online, living offline
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 …
Labour in the Circuits of Global Markets
Supply chains are becoming ever more tightly integrated as corporations vie with each other to bring their products to global markets before they lose their value through …
Bridges and Barriers
Globalisation opens up many new choices for employers, both to relocate work and to tap into a flexible labour pool through the use of migrant workers. There is a complex interplay …
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
This is Volume 4 No 1 of the international interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation. When the irresistible force of globalisation meets …
Labor in the Global Digital Economy
For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. Its a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our …
The New Gold Rush
Over the past few years a new breed of multinationals has arrived, almost unnoticed, on the scene. Like early capitalist adventurers, they have found a rich new source of wealth to …
Labour in Contemporary Capitalism
In this long-awaited book, Ursula Huws brings together the results of decades of prescient research on labour market transformation to provide an authoritative overview of the …
Feminist Interventions in International Communication
This cutting-edge work critiques today's global mediascape through feminist perspectives, highlighting concerns of policy, power, labor, and technology. Starting with the general …
The Making of a Cybertariat
The workplace has been changed in recent decades by the rise of digital technologies. Parts of a single labor process can be moved around the world, with implications not only for …
Reinventing the Welfare State
The Covid-19 pandemic has tragically exposed how today’s welfare state cannot properly protect its citizens. Despite the valiant efforts of public sector workers, from …