Work And Labour Relations In Global Platform Capitalism

Author : Haidar, Julieta,Keune, Maarten
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781802205138

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Work and Labour Relations in Global Platform Capitalism by Haidar, Julieta,Keune, Maarten Pdf

This engaging and timely book provides an in-depth analysis of work and labour relations within global platform capitalism with a specific focus on digital platforms that organise labour processes, known as labour platforms. Well-respected contributors thoroughly examine both online and offline platforms, their distinct differences and the important roles they play for both large transnational companies and those with a smaller global reach.

Author : Phil Jones
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839760464

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Work Without the Worker by Phil Jones Pdf

An accessible analysis of the new forms of work whose seismic changes will increasingly determine the future of capitalism Automation and the decline in industrial employment have lead to rising fears of a workless future. But what happens when your work itself is the thing that will make your job obsolete? In the past few years, online crowdworking platforms - like Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Clickworker - have become an increasingly important source of work, particularly for those in the Global South. Here, small tasks are assigned to people online, and are often used to train algorithms to spot patterns, patterns through machine learning those same algorithms will then be able to spot more effectively than humans. Used for everything from the mechanics of self-driving cars to Google image search, this is an increasingly powerful part of the digital ecomomy. But what happens to work when it makes itself obsolete. In this stimulating work that blends political economy, studies of contemporary work, and speculations on the future of capitalism, Phil Jones looks at what this often murky and hidden form of labour looks like, and what it says about the state of global capitalism.

Author : Praveen Jha,Walter Chambati,Lyn Ossome
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789813346352

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Labour Questions in the Global South by Praveen Jha,Walter Chambati,Lyn Ossome Pdf

This book provides a focus on some of the main markers and challenges that are at the core of the study of structural transformations in contemporary capitalism and their implications for labour in the Global South. It examines the diverse perspectives and regional and social variations that characterise labour relations as a result of the uneven development which is an important facet of the intensification of capitalist accumulation.. The book provides important insights into the impact of the crises of capitalism on the wellbeing of labour at different historical junctures. Some of the issues covered by it include the conditions of work, and the changing composition of laboring classes and/or working people. The chapters also throw light on the multiple trajectories in the development of labour relations and employment in the Global South, especially after the ascendancy and domination of neoliberal finance capitalism. Some of the major aspects considered by the essays include the decentering of production and development of global value systems, crisis of social reproduction, and the rising informalisation of work.

Author : Anita Hammer,Adam Fishwick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781350305106

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The Political Economy of Work in the Global South by Anita Hammer,Adam Fishwick Pdf

Part of the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment series, this edited collection brings together contributions from leading international scholars to initiate an important dialogue between labour process analysis and scholarship on work in the Global South. This book characterises the forms of work and labour process that characterise globalising capitalism today and addresses core analytical concerns within Labour Process Theory and research on work in the South. It explores how a wide range of production relations in the Global South, ranging from formal to informal employment and self-employment, are embedded in wider social relations of gender, caste, religion and ethnicity, and are related to wider patterns of commodification and resistance. Drawing on cutting-edge research, the book's chapters consider a diverse range of working situations, covering migrant workers in the Middle East, commercial surrogacy work in India and cooperative garment workers in Argentina. In offering a novel reading of the political economy of work in the Global South and shedding light on lesser-considered fields of work and worker organization, this volume will provide new insights for making sense of the changing world of work for students, scholars, labour activists and practitioners alike.

Author : Jamie Woodcock
Publisher : University of Westminster Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781912656950

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The Fight Against Platform Capitalism by Jamie Woodcock Pdf

So far, platform work has been an important laboratory for capital. Management techniques, like the use of algorithms, are being tested with a view to exporting across the global economy and it is argued that automation is undermining workers’ agency. Although the contractual trick of self-employment has allowed platforms to grow quickly and keep their costs down, yet it has also been the case also that workers have also found they can strike without following the existing regulations. This book develops a critique of platforms and platform capitalism from the perspective of workers and contributes to the ongoing debates about the future of work and worker organising. It presents an alternative portrait returning to a focus on workers’ experience, focusing on solidarity, drawing out a global picture of new forms of agency. In particular, the book focuses on three dynamics that are driving struggles in the platform economy: the increasing connections between workers who are no longer isolated; the lack of communication and negotiation from platforms, leading to escalating worker action around shared issues; and the internationalisation of platforms, which has laid the basis for new transnational solidarity. Focusing on transport and courier workers, online workers and freelancers author Jamie Woodcock concludes by considering how workers build power in different situations. Rather than undermining worker agency, platforms have instead provided the technical basis for the emergence of new global struggles against capitalism.

Author : Praveen Jha,Walter Chambati,Lyn Ossome
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9813346361

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Labour Questions in the Global South by Praveen Jha,Walter Chambati,Lyn Ossome Pdf

This book provides a focus on some of the main markers and challenges that are at the core of the study of structural transformations in contemporary capitalism and their implications for labour in the Global South. It examines the diverse perspectives and regional and social variations that characterise labour relations as a result of the uneven development which is an important facet of the intensification of capitalist accumulation.. The book provides important insights into the impact of the crises of capitalism on the wellbeing of labour at different historical junctures. Some of the issues covered by it include the conditions of work, and the changing composition of laboring classes and/or working people. The chapters also throw light on the multiple trajectories in the development of labour relations and employment in the Global South, especially after the ascendancy and domination of neoliberal finance capitalism. Some of the major aspects considered by the essays include the decentering of production and development of global value systems, crisis of social reproduction, and the rising informalisation of work. Praveen Jha is Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, and Adjunct Professor, Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Walter Chambati is Executive Director of The Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Harare, Zimbabwe. Lyn Ossome (PhD) is Senior Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research.

Author : Sandro Mezzadra
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031491474

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Capitalism in the Platform Age by Sandro Mezzadra Pdf

Author : Andreas Eckert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110437201

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Global Histories of Work by Andreas Eckert Pdf

Global Histories of Work is the first title in the new series "Work in Global and Historical Perspective". This collection of selected articles written by leading scholars in different disciplines provides both an introduction and numerous insights into themes, debates and methods of Global Labour History as they have been developed over the last years. The contributions to the volume discuss crucial historiographical developments; present different professions that have gained new attention in the context of an emerging Global Labour History; critically engage the boundaries of "free" labour and the ambiguities contained in this concept; and take up and historicize current debates about "informal labour". Global Histories of Work will familiarize readers with a burgeoning fi eld of high academic, social, and political relevance.

Author : Juliet Schor,Jong-Il You
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018255658

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Capital, the State, and Labour by Juliet Schor,Jong-Il You Pdf

This work concerns transformation processes in labour relations and in production systems in the 1980s. It describes new industrial and occupational patterns, as well as technological progress and the implications of the end of the Welfare State. Old practices are assessed.

Author : Nick Srnicek
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509504886

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Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek Pdf

What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of the economy: the emergence of platform capitalism. This book critically examines these new business forms, tracing their genesis from the long downturn of the 1970s to the boom and bust of the 1990s and the aftershocks of the 2008 crisis. It shows how the fundamental foundations of the economy are rapidly being carved up among a small number of monopolistic platforms, and how the platform introduces new tendencies within capitalism that pose significant challenges to any vision of a post-capitalist future. This book will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how the most powerful tech companies of our time are transforming the global economy."

Author : Karin Hofmeester,Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110424584

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Handbook Global History of Work by Karin Hofmeester,Marcel van der Linden Pdf

Coffee from East Africa, wine from California, chocolate from the Ivory Coast - all those every day products are based on labour, often produced under appalling conditions, but always involving the combination of various work processes we are often not aware of. What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? These and many other questions comprise the field of the global history of work – a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook. In 8 thematic chapters, this book discusses these aspects of work in a global and long term perspective, paying attention to several kinds of work. Convict labour, slave and wage labour, labour migration, and workers of the textile industry, but also workers' organisation, strikes, and motivations for work are part of this first handbook of global labour history, written by the most renowned scholars of the profession.

Author : Peter Leisink
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign trade and employment
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023641215

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Globalization and Labour Relations by Peter Leisink Pdf

Some of these papers were originally presented at an international conference on Globalization and the New Inequality at Utrecht University, The Netherlands; others were commissioned specifically for this book. Topics include surprising answers to frequently asked questions about globalization (the authors argue that social welfare policies can be followed and that world market forces are not beyond governance); the myth of trade union solidarity; the international restructuring of the media industries; the increasing importance of local labor relations; the impact of globalization on the potash industry; and Australia's historic industrial relations transition. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004231351

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Beyond Marx by Anonim Pdf

What might a critique of the political economy of labour look like that critically reviews the experiences of the past five hundred years while moving beyond Eurocentrism? The twenty historical and theoretical essays in this volume discuss this question.

Author : Mark Graham,William H. Dutton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198843498

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Society and the Internet by Mark Graham,William H. Dutton Pdf

This second edition of Society and the Internet provides key readings for students, scholars, and those interested in understanding the interactions of the Internet and society, introducing new and original contributions examining the escalating concerns around social media, disinformation, big data, and privacy. The chapters are grouped into five focused sections: The Internet in Everyday Life; Digital Rights and Human Rights; Networked Ideas, Politics,and Governance; Networked Businesses, Industries, and Economics; and Technological and Regulatory Histories and Futures. This book will be a valuable resource not only for students and researchers, but foranyone seeking a critical examination of the economic, social, and political factors shaping the Internet and its impact on society.

Author : Jamie Woodcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912656965

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The Fight Against Platform Capitalism by Jamie Woodcock Pdf