Work, employment and flexibility : innovation, technology and the changing world of work

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contributors -- About the editors -- Contents -- PART I Historical and evolutionary perspective -- 1. The changing nature of work, employment and flexibility -- 2. Exploring the shifting landscape of work and employment: the interplay between technology, flexibility, and regulation -- 3. The evolution of flexible working patterns -- PART II Patterns of flexibility -- 4. Time: working any time -- 5. Working from where? The dynamics of workplaces -- 6. Work in the platform economy: a broad perspective and its policy implications -- 7. Employment from the pandemic onwards: European trends on platform work and teleworking and the case of Spain -- PART III Working and communication in the virtual workplace -- 8. Workplace communication in the age of virtual flexibility -- 9. The dark side of 21st century flexible work -- 10. Treading water or dead in the water? The future of unions revisited through power analysis -- PART IV Contemporary aspects of flexible work -- 11. Learning, development and employability -- 12. Flexibility and the disadvantaged, disabled and precarious worker -- 13. Supply chains and e-supply chains: the impact on flexibilisation of work and employment -- 14. Innovation, technology and the changing world of work -- Index.