Tag: Labour
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Considering the Taylor Review: Ways Forward for the Gig Economy
21 July 2017
Author:The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices in the UK was published last week. The review assesses changes in labour markets and employment practices, and proposes policy solutions. One ...
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We should look to automation to relieve the current pressures on healthcare
20 April 2017
Author:Image by TheeErin (Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), who writes: “Working on a national cancer research project. This is the usual volume of mail that comes in two-days time.” In ...
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New Report: Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work at the Global Margins
20 March 2017
Author:The cartogram depicts countries as circles sized according to dollar inflow during March 2013 on a major online labour platform. The shading of the inner circle indicates the median ...
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What Impact is the Gig Economy Having on Development and Worker Livelihoods?
20 March 2017
Author:There are imbalances in the relationship between supply and demand of digital work, with the vast majority of buyers located in high-income countries (pictured). See the full article for ...
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Machine agency and the future of work
14 March 2017
Author:The introduction of new technology causes concern for the future of work. What is the role of humans in a work life in which an increasing number of tasks ...
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Digital work marketplaces impose a new balance of power
27 May 2016
Author:Factories can’t run, farms can’t produce, mines can’t be mined, supermarkets can’t be stocked, and call centres can’t accept calls if workers don’t go to work. Even though the ...
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Digital Transformations of Work [Conference, March 10 2016]
29 January 2016
Author:As part of the Green Templeton College Future of Work Programme we are bringing together leading researchers to consider the ways in which digitalisation and the internet are globally ...
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Investigating virtual production networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia
3 November 2014
Author:What effects will the emergence of new and transformative ‘virtual’ economic activities and work (such as ‘microwork’ and ‘game labour’) have on social and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa ...
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Cyber-revisionism: Parties’ Attitudes to Web Archiving Are a Worrying Sign for Digital Democracy
11 December 2013
Author:Josh Cowls
Following an earlier, somewhat rantier post on this blog when the news originally broke, I’ve written a more academically-oriented piece… Read more Cyber-revisionism: Parties’ Attitudes to Web Archiving Are ...
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