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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the last decade, policy actors have produced a surge of “future of work” reports that reimagine workers through the dual logics of digitalization and human capital. Drawing on 25 policy documents (WEF, World Bank, OECD, EU, and major consultancies) and combining Bacchi and Goodwin's WPR approach with decolonial feminist theory, this paper
Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday
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Home Production and Gender Gap in Structural Change
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The gender gap in non‐agricultural employment in developing countries is concentrated among rural married workers. Within‐family specialization is central: Married women spend more time on home production, work fewer market hours, and are less likely to incur fixed costs of entering non‐agriculture.
Huoqing Cao, Chaoran Chen, Xican Xi
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Managerial Overoptimism and Discretionary Disclosure
Journal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the effect of managerial overoptimism on discretionary disclosure of subjective information, such as earnings forecasts. The market applies a discount upon disclosure to capture the possibility that the revealed subjective expectation is too optimistic.
Nikolaj Niebuhr Lambertsen +1 more
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Youthfulness and immaterial labour in the new economy [PDF]
The focus of this article is youth and youthfulness in the contemporary economy. Drawing on theories of immaterial labour, the article moves beyond an existing focus on 'young people' as capital accumulating subjects to theorize the production of ...
David Farrugia (21129920)
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Music as immaterial labour: soundCloud and the changing working conditions of independent musicians [PDF]
, 2016 With the traditional recording industry experiencing a period of relative uncertainty, there are new opportunities for independent musicians to reach new audiences and establish a career.
Maturo, Nicolas
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Digital Sovereignty and the EU's Identity Between Technological Innovation and European Values
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The debate around ‘digital sovereignty’ identifies tensions rooted in the disparity between the EU's considerable economic and regulatory power in digital matters and its limited mandate and capabilities in foreign policy. Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered a strategic industry in Europe and abroad.
Paola Coletti +2 more
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Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these stories to develop an account of state formation that takes seriously the place of joy, solidarity, contention, and exhaustion within public sector
Michael Vine
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Can the subaltern speak through WhatsApp? Unearthing the labour/knowledge of digital methodologies
Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.Abstract Prompted by the challenges that Syrian refugees posed to a qualitative WhatsApp survey, this article dissects what researchers and research participants actually do when they ‘produce’ knowledge through digital methods such as WhatsApp. While many refugee participants saw the survey as an opportunity to express their views on social tensions ...
LEILA ULLRICH
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Personal dilemmas in the banking immaterial labour [PDF]
, 2011 The present qualitative exploratory research aims to analyze the experience of personal dilemmas in the context of banking immaterial labor. The theoretical support is mainly offered by Bauman, Sennett and Gaulejac.
Scalco, Priscila Daniel +2 more
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Organizational Soundscapes and the Sonicity of Voices: The Power of the ‘Sounds’ that Carry ‘Words’
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Organizations are soundscapes – they resonate with sounds and particularly the sounds of voices. Somehow however voice sonics, that is the sounds of voices and not the words carried on those sounds, have escaped attention in management studies. This absence of analysis is peculiar given voice sonics' undoubted influence on management (they may
Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford
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