New Technology Work & Employment

The "Disrupting Technology" conference calls for abstracts of careful, empirically grounded, theorisations of technology & its impact on work and employment relations.

Asking what is genuinely novel about digital innovations & should be excellent & of interest to readers & authors of NTWE.

‘Gig’ Work and Fatherhood: A Typology of Ride‐Share Fathers in Australia This paper examines what motivates fathers with dependent children to work in the gig economy and to what extent care considerations influence their decisions to perform this work. Integrating the li...

*New paper*

"‘Gig’ Work and Fatherhood: A Typology of Ride-Share Fathers in Australia"

Lisa Gulesserian, Alex Veen & Marian Baird develop a typology to examine what motivates fathers with dependent children to work in the gig economy.

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Special Issue deadline approaching:

"Reshaping work: Disabled people’s inclusion & digitalization in the new world of work"

Exploring how digitalization, AI, & machine learning affect job search, hiring processes & working life for disabled people: tinyurl.com/5n7znjzx

Deadline: 31 January 2025

Platform couriers' self‐exploitation: The case study of Glovo This article examines the phenomenon of self-exploitation among platform couriers, using the company Glovo as a case study. The research, based on a qualitative approach with interviews from 22 diffe...

A few years back I made an in-depth study of this platform work, how they justified resorting to independent contractors and how that impacted workers livelihood published in @ntwejournal.bsky.social
Will be interesting to follow how things will change.

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The HIAL storm: Resisting the technological transformation of air traffic control Whether and under what conditions the implementation of technology can be resisted hinges on how labour can mobilise structural, associational, institutional, coalitional and ideational power resourc...

"The HIAL storm: Resisting the technological transformation of air traffic control".

In this newly published article, @huwthomas.bsky.social & Peter Turnbull demonstrate how different power resources can complement, but also compromise workers' interests.

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