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Space, Place and Global Digital Work


Space, Place and Global Digital Work


Dynamics of Virtual Work

von: Jörg Flecker

CHF 118.00

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 15.07.2016
ISBN/EAN: 9781137480873
Sprache: englisch

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<p>This edited volume seeks to enhance our understanding of
the concepts of space and place in the study of digital work. It argues that
while digital work is often presented as 'placeless', work always takes place
somewhere with a certain degree of local embeddedness. Contributors to this
collection address restructuring processes that bring about delocalised
digital work and point out limitations to dislocation inherent in the work
itself, and the social relations or the physical artefacts involved.</p>
Exploring the dynamics of global value chains and shifts
in the international division of labour, this book explores the impact these
have on employment and working conditions, workers' agency in shaping and
coping with changes in work, and the new competencies needed in virtual
organisational environments. Combining different disciplinary perspectives,
the volume teases out the spatial aspects of digital work at different scales
ranging from team level to that of globalproduction networks.<p></p>
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<p>Introduction; Jörg Flecker.- Part 1. Delocalisation of digital
work.- 1. The production of ‘placelessness’: digital service work in global
value chains; Jörg Flecker and Annika
Schönauer.- 2. New topologies of
engineering work: &nbsp;informatisation,
virtualisation and globalisation in the automotive industry; Mascha
Will-Zocholl.- 3. Algorithms that divide and unite:
Delocalisation, identity, and collective action in ‘microwork’; Vili Lehdonvirta.- Part 2. The changing
international division of labour and regional development.- 4. ‘Clouds’ in the desert? Central and
Eastern Europe in the new division of labour for business services and software
development; Graham Hollinshead and Jane
Hardy.- 5. Missing Links in Service
Value Chain Analysis – The Case of Call Centers in the Brazilian Banking Sector;
Martina Sproll.-
6. Local development policies and labour
market in the dynamics of virtual value chains: the case of IT Sector in the municipality
of Londrina (Paraná, Brazil); Simone
Wolff.- 7. Creating space: The role
of the State in the Indian IT related offshoring sector; Ernesto Noronha and Premilla D’Cruz.- Part 3.
Dynamics of virtual organisations and mediatised work.- 8. ‘My company’s
invisible’ – Creating trust and belonging amongst the transient places and
spaces of virtual work; Nora
Koslowski.- 9. Towards a model of
collective competencies for global and virtual collaboration; Thomas Ryser, Elisabeth Angerer and Hartmut
Schulze.- 10. Spatial phenomena of
mediatised work; Caroline Roth-Ebner.</p>
<p>Jörg Flecker is a professor of sociology and head of the
sociology department at the University of Vienna, Austria. For more than 15
years he has worked on delocalization of ICT-enabled work and restructuring of
service value chains.</p>
<p>This edited volume seeks to enhance our understanding of the concepts of space and place in the study of digital work. It argues that while digital work is often presented as 'placeless', work always takes place somewhere with a certain degree of local embeddedness. Contributors to this collection address restructuring processes that bring about delocalised digital work and point out limitations to dislocation inherent in the work itself, and the social relations or the physical artefacts involved.</p>Exploring the dynamics of global value chains and shifts in the international division of labour, this book explores the impact these have on employment and working conditions, workers' agency in shaping and coping with changes in work, and the new competencies needed in virtual organisational environments. Combining different disciplinary perspectives, the volume teases out the spatial aspects of digital work at different scales ranging from team level to that of global production networks.<p></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

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