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Author:   Kendra Briken (Univ of Strathclyde, Dept of Human, Glasgow) ,  Shiona Chillas (University of St Andrews, UK) ,  Martin Krzywdzinski (Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung, Berlin, Germany) ,  Abigail Marks (Heriot-Watt University School of Management & Languages, Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Red Globe Press
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 15.60cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781137610133

ISBN 10:   1137610131
Pages:   271
Publication Date:   30 March 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Labour Process Theory and The New Digital Workplace (Kendra Briken, Shiona Chillas, Martin Krzywdzinski and Abigail Marks) Part I: Robots and Virtualities The Changing Face of Manufacturing Work 2. Industry 4.0 In The Making -Discourse Patterns and Digital Despotism On The Rise (Sabine Pfeiffer) 3. 'Made in China 2025': Intelligent Manufacturing and Work (Florian Butollo and Boy Lüthje) 4. Virtual Temptations: Reorganizing Work Under Conditions of Digitization, Virtualization and Informatization (Mascha Will-Zocholl) Part II: Clouds, Crowds, and Big Data -Changing Regimes of Control, Changing Forms of Resistance and Misbehaviour 5. On Call for One's Reputation -Control and Time in Creative Crowdwork (Philip Schörpf, Jörg Flecker and Annika Schönauer) 6. Workplace Cyberbullying: Insights into an Emergent Phenomenon (Premilla D’Cruz and Ernesto Noronha) 7. Changing Systems, Creating Conflicts: IT-Related Changes in Swedish Banking (Fredrik Movitz and Michael Allvin) 8. The Disruptive Power of Digital Transformation: New Forms of Industrializing Knowledge Work (Andreas Boes, Tobias Kämpf, Barbara Langes and Thomas Lühr) Part III: The Digital Workplace (Worker) Gendered, Self-exploitative, and Vulnerable? 9. Women, Work and Technology: Examining the Under-Representation of Women in ICT (Gavin Maclean, Abigail Marks and Shiona Chillas) 10. Understanding Self-Exploitation in the Digital Games Sector (Adrian Wright) 11. Macro, Meso and Micro-level Determinants of Employment Relations in the Video Games Industry (Christina Teipen) Part IV: Epilogue 12. Actually Existing Capitalism: Some Digital Delusions (Paul Thompson and Kendra Briken).

Reviews

Briken, Chillas, Krzywdzinski and Marks offer a timely look at the impact of emerging technology and digitisation in the workplace, with research that spans multiple countries and industries. ... The inclusion of a broad range of case studies ... will be relevant for students of both technology and work. ... book provides an internationally oriented and timely look at how new technologies are altering the workplace, with a specific eye towards the tension between efficiency-driven capital and outcomes for workers. (Rebecca Downes, Labour and Industry, Vol. 24 (3), July, 2017)

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Kendra Briken is a Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde Business School, UK Shiona Chillas is a Lecturer in the School of Management at the University of St. Andrews, UK Martin Krzywdzinski is Head of the Project Group Globalization, Work and Production at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany Abigail Marks is Professor of Work and Employment Studies at Heriot- Watt University, UK.

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