Digital Work and the Platform Economy

Seppo Poutanen is Senior Research Fellow and Docent of Sociology at the University of Turku’s School of Economics, Finland.Anne Kovalainen is Professor at the University of Turku’s School of Economics, Finland.Petri Rouvinen is Senior Economist at Avance Attorneys Ltd.

• List of TablesList of Figures List of Boxes Contributor Biographies I Introduction: Digital Work in Platform EconomySeppo Poutanen, Anne Kovalainen, and Petri Rouvinen II New facets of work and workers’ life in the digital platform economy1 Martin Kenney, Petri Rouvinen, and John Zysman: Employment, work, and value creation in the era of digital platforms2 Anne Kovalainen, Steven P. Vallas, and Seppo Poutanen: Theorizing work in the contemporary platform economy3 Annina Ropponen, Jari J. Hakanen, Mervi Hasu, and Laura Seppänen: Workers’ health, wellbeing, and safety in the digitalizing platform economyIII Challenges to skills and capabilities in the digital platform economy4 Kaisa Hytönen and Anne Kovalainen: Vocational education goes to industry: Future skills at work derive from novel models of cooperation5 Aija Leiponen and Annu Kotiranta: Digital disruption in the making: Digitalization of Finnish employment agencies6 Maija Vähämäki, Tero Kuusi, Maarit Laiho, and Martti Kulvik: The road to productivity with automatization: Dialogue between the experienced and measured 7 Satu Aaltonen: The digitalization of migrants’ labor market integration services: Boosting or hindering social inclusion?IV Theoretical opportunities for understanding new emergent phenomena in the digital platform economy 8 Eveliina Saari, Mervi Hasu, Sari Käpykangas, and Anne Kovalainen: Emergence of agentic professional competence in the digitalization of social services and healthcare9 Laura Seppänen and Seppo Poutanen: Cultural transition in the sharing economy: Introducing platform work with activity concepts10 Seppo Poutanen: Ontologically sound basis for analyzing academia, digitalization, and entrepreneurship together: A solution to the sociomaterialistic puzzle of "strong relationality"Index