Work in the digital age 3500-SIS-WITDA
Digitalization impacts the world of work on many levels. New technologies are deeply transforming the existing sectors, creating challenges for workers who are digitally outsourced and put outside of employment protection; subject to increasing surveillance by algorithms instead of human interventions and pressure due to task standardization and international competition; disciplined by gamification. Trade unions are also undermined as they need to organize spatially and organizationally dispersed workforce. Further, the intense use of technology allows companies to circumvent regulatory structures, thus contributing to the disruption of institutional settings protecting labour, which creates challenges for policy makers. Digital technologies also allow to create new types of activities that blur boundaries between work and non-work. Following topics will be covered in the course:
Work and new technologies – concepts & debates
Regulatory enterpreneurship in employment regulation
Remote work and right to disconnect
Consequences of economic disruptions for digitally outsourced workers
Playbour and gamification of work
Discontent and resistance in the digital economy
The regulation and self-regulation in platform work
Rodzaj przedmiotu
Tryb prowadzenia
Koordynatorzy przedmiotu
Efekty kształcenia
K_W01 Knows and understands basic concepts of various sub-domains of sociology (e.g. sociology of family, health, work, religion, economy, education, etc)
K_W03 Is aware of ongoing theoretical and methodological disputes conducted in modern sociology; is reflective and critical of various positions
K_W27 Has in-depth knowledge of the 19th, 20th and 21st ideas and social processes which have shaped the face of the modern world
K_U17 Can relate an academic text to the problems of social life and its empirical studies
K_K05 Can gather, find, synthesize and critically assess information about social sciences
Kryteria oceniania
Discussion, group presentation
Literatura
Batool, M., et al. (2021). How COVID-19 has shaken the sharing economy? An analysis using Google trends data. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja 34(1): 2374-2386.
Charles, J., Ferreras, I., & Lamine, A. (2020). A freelancers’ cooperative as a case of democratic institutional experimentation for better work: a case study of SMart-Belgium. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 26(2): 157-174.
Doellgast, V., & Wagner, I. (2022). Collective regulation and the future of work in the digital economy: Insights from comparative employment relations. Journal of Industrial Relations 64(3): 438–460.
Ekbia, H., & Nardi, B. (2014). Heteromation and its (dis)contents: The invisible division of labor between humans and machines. First Monday.
Ferrer-Conill, R. (2018). Playbour and the gamification of work: Empowerment, exploitation and fun as labour dynamics. In Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction (pp. 193-210). Palgrave Macmillan.
Fulton, C. (2000). The impact of telework on information professionals' work processes. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS/Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI.
Lazar, T., Ribak, R., & Davidson, R. (2020). Mobile social media as platforms in workers’ unionization. Information, Communication & Society 23(3): 437-453.
Seidl, T. (2022). The politics of platform capitalism: A case study on the regulation of Uber in New York. Regulation & Governance 16(2): 357-374.
Sewell, G., & Taskin, L. (2015). Out of sight, out of mind in a new world of work? Autonomy, control, and spatiotemporal scaling in telework. Organization studies 36(11): 1507-1529.
Stephany, F., et al. (2020). Distancing bonus or downscaling loss? The changing livelihood of US online workers in times of COVID-19. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 111(3), 561-573.
Sweet, S., & Meiksins, P. (2020). Changing contours of work: Jobs and opportunities in the new economy. Sage, ch. 2
Thelen, K. (2018). Regulating Uber: The politics of the platform economy in Europe and the United States. Perspectives on Politics 16(4): 938-953.
The lecture list is subject to changes.
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