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Service encounters and the manufacture of harm: violence in the service economy under late-modernity. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Miles L, Azad M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Gender and Anticipatory Labour in the Gig Economy: How Employability Is Unequally Performed by Women and Men on Project‐Based Platforms

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Work mediated by digital labour platforms is often framed as flexible and autonomous, yet accessing paid tasks commonly requires extensive unpaid effort. Drawing on 65 qualitative interviews with Australian workers on project‐based platforms (including Airtasker, Fiverr and Freelancer), we develop the concept of anticipatory labour: the unpaid,
Brendan Churchill, Kate Dangar, Asangi Mira Gunawansa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geographies of biosecurity: Racialized vulnerability, colonial extraction, and a new critical consciousness. [PDF]

Prog Hum Geogr
Prouse C, Arefin MR.
europepmc   +1 more source

What Crisis? Competing Narratives of Mental Health in US Higher Education. [PDF]

Cult Med Psychiatry
Raikhel E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

Gendered digital housekeeping and invisible care labor in platformed higher education. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Li X, Cheah KSL, Wong YS.
europepmc   +1 more source

Accounting Rules and the Labor Market for Accountants

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this study, I explore how accounting rules—in particular the restrictiveness of GAAP—have impacted the labor market for accountants. I find that when the rules become more restrictive, there are fewer students majoring in accounting and fewer accountants and auditors overall. The overall number of accounting positions that firms recruit for
ANTHONY LE
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting big data optimism: risks of data-driven black box algorithms for society. [PDF]

Ethics Inf Technol
Mahajan S, Helbing D.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Meaning of Work in the Digital Era: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda

Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As digital technologies continue to reshape the nature of work, their impact on workers' experience of the meaning of work has attracted growing scholarly interest. However, the existing body of findings remains largely fragmented and conceptually inconsistent.
Yukun Liu, Qi Fang, Yasin Rofcanin, Mireia Las Heras, Xiao‐Yun Xie   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Well-Being Economies: A Harder but Still Important Health Advocacy Goal; A Response to Recent Commentaries. [PDF]

Int J Health Policy Manag
Labonté R.
europepmc   +1 more source