Policy Implications of Virtual Work

This collection presents an array of policy debates and implications emerging from virtual work. The authors cover a range of areas, including: conceptual debates, measuring virtual work; discourses and levels of policy intervention; the role of the sharing and collaborative economy; and resultant c...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Meil, Pamela (Editor), Kirov, Vassil (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
SeriesDynamics of Virtual Work
Subjects
Social sciences.
Labor law.
Social policy.
Mass media.
Communication.
Social sciences in mass media.
Industrial sociology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319520575
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-52057-5
Physical DescriptionXV, 301 p. 5 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Concepts and debates
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  • 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.

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