Policy Implications of Virtual Work. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Pamela Meil, Vassil Kirov.
• Editors: Meil, Pamela; Kirov, Vassil
• Other Names: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
• Contents: 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 Nordgård -- 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer International Publishing Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (XV, 301 pages 5 illustrations in color.)
• Subjects: 361.61; Social sciences; Labor laws and legislation; Social policy; Mass media; Communication; Social sciences in mass media; Industrial sociology; Telecommuting; Virtual work; Telecommuting; Virtual work; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Social Science -- Media Studies; Law -- Labor & Employment; Sociology: work & labour; Sociology; Employment & labour law; Social legislation; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Policy; Central government policies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3319520571; 9783319520575
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 26, 2017).
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