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Policy Implications of Virtual Work (Dynamics of Virtual Work)

Policy Implications of Virtual Work (Dynamics of Virtual Work)

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Publication Date: April 18th, 2017
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
9783319520568
Pages:
301
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Description

Part 1: Concepts and debates.- 1.- Introduction: The policy implications of virtual work; Pamela Meil and Vassil Kirov.- 2. Where did Online Platforms come from? The virtualization of work organization and the new policy challenges it raises; Ursula Huws.- Part 2: Measuring virtual work.- 3. Crowd employment and ICT-based mobile work - new employment forms in Europe; Irene Mandl and Maurizio Curtarelli.- Part 3: Discourses and Principles of Regulation.- 4. Regulating the void: Online participatory cultures, user-generated content, and the Digital Agenda for Europe; Bjarki Valtysson.- 5. The Imperative of Code: labor, regulation and legitimacy; Shenja van der Graaf and Eran Fisher.- Part 4: Sharing, cooperating and streaming in the digital economy.- 6. Assessing Music Streaming and Industry Disruptions; Daniel Nordg rd.- 7. Information Communication Technologies, citizens, and parliament in Portugal: the continued e-democracy gap and lessons from the Obama experience; Carlos Cunha and Filipa Seiceira.- 8. Sharing Economy as an urban phenomenon: Examining policies for Sharing Cities; Silvia Mazzucotelli Salice and Ivana Pais.- Part 5: Organizing, Protecting and Regulating Labor.- 9. Workers, Contradictions and Digital Commodity Chains: Organizing with Content Creators in Canada; Karen Wirsig and James Compton.- 10. Digitalization of public services in Europe: policy challenges for the European trade union movement; Vassil Kirov.- 11. The Legal Protection of Crowdworkers: Four Avenues for workers' rights in the virtual realm; Jeremias Prassl and Martin Risak.

About the Author

Pamela Meil is Senior Research Fellow and member of the board of governors at the Institute for Social Science Research, Germany. Vassil Kirov is Associate Professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Associate Researcher at ETUI.