Overview
- Provides an analysis of changes in the relationship between place and work.
- Considers theoretical understandings of space and work as well as empirical case studies.
- Analyses trends in mobilisation, localisation, de- and re-localisation of work and the spatial consequences for workers.
Part of the book series: Dynamics of Virtual Work (DVW)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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About this book
This book provides a unique contribution to the controversial discussion that surrounds the digitalisation and virtualisation of work. With a focus on the new formation of space and place, it critically discusses the idea that places in the context of work are increasingly losing their importance, and becoming more arbitrary with new technical possibilities.
Theoretical considerations that deal conceptually with the understanding of space and work are taken into account, as well as empirical results from different professional and work fields across various regions of our globalised world.The book is applicable to researchers and students of sociology of work, media and communications, organization studies, workplace studies, labour process studies, economics, human geography, anthropology and learning sciences.
Chapter 1, 4 and 11 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Reviews
- Andreas Boes, Adjunct Professor, Technical University of Darmstadt; Governing Board, Institute for Social Science Research (ISF) Munich and Executive Board, Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), Munich/Germany
“At a time where work arrangements are questioned, from working from home to global value chains, this edited book delivers the needed research and suggested theorizing for how we need to critically investigate in to the hidden abodes of production in a future that is already present. Compulsory reading.”
- Kendra Briken, Senior Lecturer in Work, Employment and Organisation, Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow/UK
“This is an exciting collection of studies that illustrates how technologies are being used to reinvent the spaces where we work, and how that changes how we relate to each other and to ourselves.”
- Vili Lehdonvirta, Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford/UK
“The well-balanced and diverse contributions in this anthology offer exciting insights into digitally-mediated work practices and the resultant challenges for individuals. The volume stimulates new and important questions about the organisation of work and learning processes.”
- Anoush Margaryan, Professor in the Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School/Denmark
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mascha Will-Zocholl is Professor at Hessian University of Police and Administration, Department of Public Administration, Germany.
Caroline Roth-Ebner is Associate Professor at the University of Klagenfurt, Department of Media and Communications, Austria.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Topologies of Digital Work
Book Subtitle: How Digitalisation and Virtualisation Shape Working Spaces and Places
Editors: Mascha Will-Zocholl, Caroline Roth-Ebner
Series Title: Dynamics of Virtual Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80327-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80326-1Published: 06 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80329-2Published: 07 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80327-8Published: 05 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2947-9290
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9304
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 289
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Work, Science and Technology Studies, Human Geography