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Dilemmas of digital labour

Journal of AI, Robotics & Workplace Automation, 2021
Digital labour raises many questions, including how to measure quality, efficiency and cost, but also regarding people, ranging from skills and labour costs to salaries and unionisation. This paper aims to highlight some pertinent threads and arguments about technological disruptions to workforce automation and robotisation.
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The End of Labour? Rethinking the Labour Question in the Digital Age

2023
This framing chapter situates the book’s case studies within their historical context. Over the last half-century, globalisation and digitalisation have dramatically changed the world of work, and the social weight of the international labour movement has declined. Understanding these changes has preoccupied labour scholars.
Edward Webster, Lynford Dor
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Labour, Law and Digitalisation

2022
Digital transformation of work has recently become the hot topic of labour law research, probably for more than one simple reason. New digital technologies have rapidly spread all over the world in the field of work (as well), and their future seems to be even brighter. We must reasonably expect that its role in economic, as well as work relations will
menegatti emanuele, gyulavari tamas
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eSport and the exploitation of digital labour

Journal of Fandom Studies, The, 2020
Our discussion overviews eSports’ connection to labour, work and the digital economy in an effort to situate and make contextual comment on those issues, finding that there is a particular concern in regard to the economic exploitation of fan-based digital labour, and specifically in relation to digital labour and streaming platforms.
Christopher McCutcheon, Michael Hitchens
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DIGITALIZATION IMPACT ON THE LABOUR MARKET AND SOCIAL AND LABOUR RELATIONS

2023
. Globalization is expanding the scope of employment forms in the labour market. The digital transformation of production effects both the Economy and Employment. The production processes automation requires constant updating of knowledge and increasing the competence of employees, high readiness to adapt to new conditions and mechanisms for the ...
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Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife

Australian Feminist Studies, 2018
On Twitter in 2018, the elite comedy club High Spirits in Mumbai, India was exposed for its owner Khodu Irani’s and others’ sexual harassment of some of the members of the club.
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Digital Labour Is Emotional Labour

This chapter considers the 'emotional labour' involved in digital work and reflects on the emotionality inherent within everyday digital practices and behaviours in museums and heritage organisations. It argues that only by better articulating the affective dimensions of working with technology can we build a more nuanced understanding of the future of
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Digital Labour Platforms: Dusk or Dawn of Labour Law?

2020
The purpose of this paper is to outline the problems faced by individual and collective labour law in face of new forms of work organization such as digital platforms. Digital platforms do not constitute uniform silos separate from other branches of economy.
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Digital Labor and Imperialism

Monthly Review, 2016
A century has now passed since Lenin's <em>Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism</em> (1916) and Bukharin's <em>Imperialism and World Economy</em> (1915), as well as Rosa Luxemburg's 1913 <em>Accumulation of Capital</em>, all spoke of imperialism as a force and tool of capitalism.
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Digital Labour Platforms, Resistance, and Labour Protection in Bangladesh

Digital labour platforms are the newest technological wave that is reshaping and reconfiguring the economic and labour landscape. Digital platforms, often known as the gig economy, are increasingly adopting app-based models to connect consumers with workers to complete their on-demand tasks.
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