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The Representation of Workers in the Digital Era

Organizing a Heterogeneous Workforce

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Editors:
  1. Raquel Rego

    1. Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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  2. Hermes Augusto Costa

    1. Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Economia Centro de Estudos Sociais, Coimbra, Portugal

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  • Focuses on worker collective representation as an essential tool for providing a dignified working existence
  • Draws on rich empirical case studies, focusing non-Anglo-Saxon countries
  • Analyses social, political, and legal perspectives of worker organisation

Part of the book series: Dynamics of Virtual Work (DVW)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Raquel Rego, Hermes Augusto Costa
    Pages 1-13

  3. Precarious Work and Possibilities of Union Resistance in Brazil

    • Andréia Galvão, José Dari Krein, Marilane Teixeira, Patrícia Rocha Lemos
    Pages 15-36

  4. How to Represent the Unrepresented? Renewing the Collective Action Repertoires of Autonomous Workers in Three Countries

    • Laura Beuker, François Pichault
    Pages 37-62

  5. Digitization and Collective Representation Strategies in Spain

    • Antonio Martin-Artiles, Alberto Pastor Martínez
    Pages 63-87

  6. The Representation of Precarious Workers: Two Case Studies from Portugal

    • José Soeiro
    Pages 89-111

  7. Work Platforms, Informality and Forms of Resistance: The Case of On-Demand Workers in the City of São Paulo

    • Ruy Braga, Douglas Silva
    Pages 113-135

  8. Gender Representation in the High-Tech Sector in Italy: The Required Alliance Between Trade Unions and Women’s Associations

    • Luisa De Vita
    Pages 137-160

  9. The Representation of Platform Workers Through Facebook Groups in Bulgaria: A Partially-Filled Void

    • Vassil Kirov, Gabriela Yordanova
    Pages 161-182

  10. Conclusion

    • Hermes Augusto Costa, Raquel Rego
    Pages 183-190
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About this book

This book compiles empirical evidence on both the challenges raised by neo-liberal policies and the internet to trade unions, and the development of more flexible forms of worker organisation and collective representation. The relationship with digital devices seems inevitably to contribute to differentiating trends, simultaneously acting as an internal and external constraint on organisation. Gathering academics and experts from European and Brazilian universities, this book is recommended for researchers and  students in the fields of sociology of work, labour studies and collective action, as well as practitioners and others interested in worker interest organisations and collective representation in the early 21st Century. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Raquel Rego

  • Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Economia Centro de Estudos Sociais, Coimbra, Portugal

    Hermes Augusto Costa

About the editors

Raquel Rego is a Research Fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais from the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, where she also teaches both in the PhD Program of Sociology-OpenSoc and in the PhD Program of Comparative Politics and International Relations.

Hermes Augusto Costa is Vice-Dean and Professor at the Faculty of Economics from the Universidade de Coimbra, and a Researcher at Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal. He co-coordinates the PhD Program in Sociology: Labour Relations, Social Inequalities and Trade Unionism.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Representation of Workers in the Digital Era

  • Book Subtitle: Organizing a Heterogeneous Workforce

  • Editors: Raquel Rego, Hermes Augusto Costa

  • Series Title: Dynamics of Virtual Work

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04652-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04651-3Published: 08 August 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04652-0Published: 07 August 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2947-9290

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-9304

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 190

  • Topics: Sociology of Work, Industrial Organization, Social Structure, Social Inequality

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