As part of the Green Templeton College Future of Work Programme we brought together leading researchers to consider the ways in which digitalisation and the internet are globally transforming work, employment and labour markets.
This one-day conference featured:
Recordings from this event:
Digital Labour and Development: New Knowledge Economies or Digital Sweatshops
Rentier Capitalism: Taskers in the Precariat
Digitization And Work: Potentials and Challenges in Low-Wage Labor Markets
Digital Labour and Exploitation: It’s not a Done Deal
Fragmented time and the UK social care sector
Divergent Temporalities: Polarisation or Marginalisation
Digital Jobs in the EU and Self-Employment in Developing Countries
Professor of Internet Geography
Mark Graham is an economic geographer. His research focuses on digital labour, the gig economy, and digital inequalities. He is the author, most recently, of The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction.
Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research
Vili Lehdonvirta examines the politics and socio-economic impacts of digital technologies. He is one of the world's most cited authors on gig work and the platform economy. His current research deals with the geopolitics of digital infrastructures.
Research Professor, University of London
University of Bristol
University of Manchester
Columbia University
University of Edinburgh