About this book series

Technological change has transformed where people work, when and how. Digitisation of information has altered labour processes out of all recognition whilst telecommunications have enabled jobs to be relocated globally. ICTs have also enabled the creation of entirely new types of 'digital' or 'virtual' labour, both paid and unpaid, shifting the borderline between 'play' and 'work' and creating new types of unpaid labour connected with the consumption and co-creation of goods and services. This affects private life as well as transforming the nature of work and people experience the impacts differently depending on their gender, their age, where they live and what work they do. Aspects of these changes have been studied separately by many different academic experts however up till now a cohesive overarching analytical framework has been lacking. Drawing on a major, high-profile COST Action (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Dynamics of Virtual Work, this series will bring together leading international experts from a wide range of disciplines including political economy, labour sociology, economic geography, communications studies, technology, gender studies, social psychology, organisation studies, industrial relations and development studies to explore the transformation of work and labour in the Internet Age. The series will allow researchers to speak across disciplinary boundaries, national borders, theoretical and political vocabularies, and different languages to understand and make sense of contemporary transformations in work and social life more broadly. The book series will build on and extend this, offering a new, important and intellectually exciting intervention into debates about work and labour, social theory, digital culture, gender, class, globalisation and economic, social and political change.
Electronic ISSN
2947-9304
Print ISSN
2947-9290
Series Editor
  • Ursula Huws,
  • Rosalind Gill

Book titles in this series

  1. Global Creative Ecosystems

    A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production

    Editors:
    • Tarek E. Virani
    • Copyright: 2023

    Available Renditions

    • Hard cover
    • eBook
  2. Platformization and Informality

    Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation

    Editors:
    • Aditi Surie
    • Ursula Huws
    • Copyright: 2023

    Available Renditions

    • Hard cover
    • eBook
  3. Topologies of Digital Work

    How Digitalisation and Virtualisation Shape Working Spaces and Places

    Editors:
    • Mascha Will-Zocholl
    • Caroline Roth-Ebner
    • Copyright: 2021

    Available Renditions

    • Hard cover
    • Soft cover
    • eBook