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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Delocalisation of Digital Work
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The Changing International Division of Labour and Regional Development
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Dynamics of Virtual Organisation and Mediatised Work
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Back Matter
Keywords
- spatial dynamics
- Sociology
- labour theory
- internet
- online work
- work organisation
- Information Technology
- society
- technology
- telework
- virtual work
- delocalization
- value chains
- global production networks
- environment
- globalization
- identity
- information technology
- Information Technology (IT)
- labor market
- missing link
- Nation
- organization
- service
- sociology
- trust
About this book
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.
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Space, Place and Global Digital Work
Editors: Jörg Flecker
Series Title: Dynamics of Virtual Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48087-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48086-6Published: 29 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48087-3Published: 15 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-9290
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9304
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 256
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology, general, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality