Die Erfahrung, dass technischer Fortschritt in der Vergangenheit die Wirtschafts- und Beschäftigungsstrukturen zwar verändert hat, in Gesamtbetrachtung aber in der Regel zu Beschäftigungswachstum führte, bildet die Grundlage für eine inzwischen wesentlich differenziertere Diskussion. Als...

Die aktuelle Digitalisierung in der Arbeitswelt hat Auswirkungen auf die Geschlechtergerechtigkeit: Digitalisierung verändert die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie, Präsenzkulturen und damit verbundene Profilierungsmöglichkeiten sowie die Bewertung von Tätigkeiten. Das Working Paper stellt...

Der strukturelle Wandel der Arbeits- und Berufswelt spiegelt sich auch in den steigenden Qualifikationsanforderungen wider, die an ArbeitnehmerInnen wie Arbeitsuchende gerichtet werden. Parallel dazu ist bereits in den letzten Jahrzehnten das formale Bildungsniveau der Bevölkerung erheblich...

"Changing Contours of Work is an exploration of the American workplace in the larger context of an integrated global economy. Presented with engaging vignettes and rich data, this fourth edition shows the reader how the "old economy" is now operating within the "new economy" and how that...

"Culture is a priceless inheritance and source of wellbeing that is of immense value to humankind. Cultural economics sets out to examine the nature and social benefits of cultural products and phenomena as they exist in the market. This volume is the masterpiece of Li Yining, one of the...

"This edited volume explores the diversity of experiences and expressions of 'new' ways of working. It includes studies of novel organisations of work around hacker and maker spaces, digital nomadism, co-working spaces, and gig and platform working. Through these studies, it reflects on and...

From 15–21 July 2018, the World Congress of Sociology, organized by the International Sociological Association (ISA), took place in Toronto, Canada. Here, TA research continued to feature prominently at ISA, this time focusing on conceptual approaches to the relation of technology and work....

"This handbook provides an overview of the research on the changing nature of work and workers by marshalling interdisciplinary research to summarize the empirical evidence and provide documentation of what has actually changed. Connections are explored between the changing nature of work and...

"How did Americans come to believe that working at home is feasible, productive, and desirable? Easy Living examines how the idea of working within the home was constructed and disseminated in popular culture and mass media during the twentieth century. Through the analysis of national magazines...

"Made to Work analyses the conditions of mobile knowledge work (MKW) in contemporary worklives, contrasting and drawing parallels among three highly significant sectors of the Knowledge Economy: academia, Information Communication Technology (ICT) management, and digital creative work. It...

Introduction : one nation under work -- The hours of inequality -- Nickel and timed -- The electronic whip -- Time machines -- More than money -- Back to work -- We control the clocks -- Labor's forgotten fight.

Deckblatt -- Titelseite -- Impressum -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- 1 Einleitung -- 1.1 Technologieschub -- 1.2 Weitreichende Erwartungen - Technikutopie Digitalisierung -- 1.3 Gegenstimmen: Skepsis und Befürchtungen -- 1.4 Argumentationsleitende Grundannahmen -- 1.5 Untersuchungsfeld, Methode und...

Introduction -- Job, many lives -- Assembling a labor market -- Mediators unpacked -- Firms : seeing like a call center -- The state : making a middle path -- Labor : seeking the Philippine dream -- Three archetypes -- Responsible women -- Restless gays -- Rooted men -- Conclusion -- Gone baby...

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...

An industrial relations journey -- Apprenticeship : Harvard Business School, 1954-1959 -- Becoming a journeyman : University of Chicago, 1959-1971 -- Managing a shop : New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1971-1979 -- Returning to the bench : Sloan School...

Als Adam Smith und andere die Theorie freier Märkte entwickelten, war das ein progressives Projekt: Die Freiheit der Märkte sollte auch zur Befreiung der Lohnabhängigen führen - von den Zwängen obrigkeitsstaatlicher Strukturen, vor allem aber von der Gängelung durch die Arbeitgeber. In...

Introduction: the imagined garden -- The machine in the garden -- Creating industrial citizens -- The garden in the machine -- Remembering the work of the long boom -- Change at work -- The ghost in the machine -- The ruined garden -- Conclusion: reimagining work