Virtual Workers and the Global Labour Market

✍ Scribed by Juliet Webster, Keith Randle (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 288
Series: Dynamics of Virtual Work
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The emerging world of virtual work is not tied to physical workplaces or particular locations, but is dispersed and footloose. It is frequently precarious, and blurs the boundaries between work and non-work, production and consumption.

Contributors to this wide-ranging volume of case studies identify the growing and diverse army of virtual workers. Building from an overarching introduction which discusses the salient features of virtual work, this collection considers the challenges in analysing the class position of virtual workers.

Virtual Workers and the Global Labour Market features international examples of emerging occupations and working conditions in new media, gaming, journalism, advertising and branding, software development and offshore services. Cross-disciplinary insights from across the social sciences inform contributions on labour market entry, employment relations, precariousness, the dynamics of virtual teams, and cyberbullying, in order to illustrate the diversity of virtual work, its circumstances and its labour force.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Positioning Virtual Workers Within Space, Time, and Social Dynamics....Pages 3-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Engineering Lifestyles: Career Choices in Late Modernity....Pages 37-56
Young Entrepreneurs and Creative Collectives: Greek New Media Workers in Constant Crisis....Pages 57-76
Virtual Innovation Work: Labour, Creativity, and Standardisation....Pages 77-93
It‘s on the Cards: Emerging Employment Relationships in Online Poker....Pages 95-116
Recruitment, Work, and Identity in Community Management: Passion, Precarity, and Play....Pages 117-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Rhythms of Creativity and Power in Freelance Creative Work....Pages 139-159
Towards More Insecurity? Virtual Work and the Sustainability of Creative Labour....Pages 161-178
The Fragile Professional Identities of Digital Journalists in Romania....Pages 179-198
Presence and Absence in Global Virtual Team Meetings: Physical, Virtual, and Social Dimensions....Pages 199-217
The Presentation of Self in a Virtual World: Working in Second Life....Pages 219-237
Cyberbullying at Work: Experiences of Indian Employees....Pages 239-259
Back Matter....Pages 261-279

✦ Subjects

Sociology of Work;Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology;Social Structure, Social Inequality;Media and Communication;Business and Management, general

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