Representation of Workers in the Digital Era

Organizing a Heterogeneous Workforce

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Raquel Rego, Hermes Augusto Costa, Hermes Augusto Costa, Hermes Augusto Costa

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This book compiles empirical evidence on both the challenges raised by neo-liberal policies and the internet to trade unions, and the development of more flexible forms of worker organisation and collective representation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-08-08
Mått148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt392 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDynamics of Virtual Work
Antal sidor190
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031046513

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Raquel Rego is a Research Fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais from the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, where she also teaches both in the PhD Program of Sociology-OpenSoc and in the PhD Program of Comparative Politics and International Relations.Hermes Augusto Costa is Vice-Dean and Professor at the Faculty of Economics from the Universidade de Coimbra, and a Researcher at Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal. He co-coordinates the PhD Program in Sociology: Labour Relations, Social Inequalities and Trade Unionism.

Chapter 1Introduction.- Chapter 2Precarious work and possibilities of union resistance in Brazil.- Chapter 3How to represent the unrepresented? Renewing the collective action repertoires of autonomous workers in three countries.- Chapter 4Digitization and collective representation strategies in Spain.- Chapter 5The representation of precarious workers: two case studies from Portugal.- Chapter 6Work platforms, informality and forms of resistance: the case of on-demand workers in the city of São Paulo.- Chapter 7Gender representation in the high-tech sector in Italy: the required alliance between trade unions and women associations.- Chapter 8The representation of platform workers through Facebook groups in Bulgaria – a partially-filled void.- Chapter 9Conclusion.