This book explores the gig economy and the role of migrant workers, which has been widely documented, but under-researched. In the last forty years work and employment in the advanced economies has undergone profound transformations and, more recently, a key role has been played by the...

1. Introduction -- 2. Profit from Openness: A Critique of a New Business Model -- 3. Profiting from Free and Open Source Software -- 4.Profiting from Open Access Publishing -- 5. Profiting from Open Audiovisual Content -- 6. Profiting from Massive Open Online Courses. - 7. Conclusions and...

In this long-awaited book, Ursula Huws brings together the results of decades of prescient research on labour market transformation to provide an authoritative overview of the impacts of technological, economic, social and political change on working life in the 21stcentury. Placing current...

This book is situated in the nexus between technology, labour and politics. It focuses on contradictions as heuristic devices that uncover struggles, frictions and ambiguities of digitalization in work and labour environments. Topics include contradictions in automation, internet platforms,...

Part I Who are the virtual wokers? -- Positioning virtual workers within space, time, and social dynamics -- Part II Virtual occupations, work processes and preparation for the virtual labour market -- Engineering lifestyles: Career choices in late modernity -- Young entrepreneurs and creative...