Sharing time: new forms of reciprocity in the digital economy. (1st December 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Is Part Of: Work, organisation, labour & globalisation. Volume 11:Number 2(2017)
• Page Start: 39
• Page End: 58
• Publication Date: 2017-12-01
• Subjects: Work -- Periodicals; Labor -- Periodicals; Division of labor -- Periodicals; Industrial relations -- Periodicals; Division of labor; Industrial relations; Labor; Work; Periodicals; 331
• DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.11.2.0039
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1745-6428

Abstract

Abstract : The current debate about the sharing economy has rediscovered the importance of reciprocity as a model of exchange. Time banks, traditionally tools for enhancing an underutilised workforce, are developing at the same time as forms of mutualism and reciprocity within defined communities (residents of a neighbourhood or organisational population of a company), and now have a new opportunity for scaling up through the enabling power of new digital technologies. This article analyses the case of a digital time bank using social network analysis in order to investigate whether the sharing economy can be considered a practice of 're-socializing economic exchange'.