Space, place and global digital work. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jörg Flecker, editor.
• Editors: Flecker, Jörg, 1959-
• Contents: Introduction; Jörg Flecker -- Part 1. Delocalisation of digital work -- 1. The production of 'placelessness': digital service work in global value chains; Jörg Flecker and Annika Schönauer -- 2. New topologies of engineering work: informatisation, virtualisation and globalisation in the automotive industry; Mascha Will-Zocholl -- 3. Algorithms that divide and unite: Delocalisation, identity, and collective action in 'microwork'; Vili Lehdonvirta -- Part 2. The changing international division of labour and regional development -- 4. 'Clouds' in the desert? Central and Eastern Europe in the new division of labour for business services and software development; Graham Hollinshead and Jane Hardy -- 5. Missing Links in Service Value Chain Analysis -- The Case of Call Centers in the Brazilian Banking Sector; Martina Sproll -- 6. Local development policies and labour market in the dynamics of virtual value chains: the case of IT Sector in the municipality of Londrina (Paraná, Brazil); Simone Wolff -- 7. Creating space: The role of the State in the Indian IT related offshoring sector; Ernesto Noronha and Premilla D'Cruz -- Part 3. Dynamics of virtual organisations and mediatised work -- 8. 'My company's invisible' -- Creating trust and belonging amongst the transient places and spaces of virtual work; Nora Koslowski -- 9. Towards a model of collective competencies for global and virtual collaboration; Thomas Ryser, Elisabeth Angerer and Hartmut Schulze -- 10. Spatial phenomena of mediatised work; Caroline Roth-Ebner.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.3/61; Social sciences; Work -- Sociological aspects; Work environment; Information technology; Sociology; Social structure; Equality; Economics -- Sociological aspects; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Economics -- Sociological aspects; Equality; Information technology; Social sciences; Social structure; Sociology; Work environment; Work -- Sociological aspects; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Sociology: work & labour; Social issues & processes; Sociology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137480873; 1137480874
• Related ISBNs: 9781137480866; 1137480866
• Notes: Note: Online resource, title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed on August 31, 2016).
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