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View article: Sociotechnical Change in British Supermarkets: Examining the Role of Labour
Sociotechnical Change in British Supermarkets: Examining the Role of Labour Open
When predicting the future of retail work, commentators tend to focus on automation and labour replacement and neglect the continued role played by labour, particularly in food retail. To understand this role, this article draws on both in…
View article: Unstable platforms: Uber’s business model and the challenge of organisational legitimacy
Unstable platforms: Uber’s business model and the challenge of organisational legitimacy Open
Lauded as the poster child of the sharing economy, the success of Uber’s business model was once viewed as inexorable. However, a disastrous Initial Public Offering and a series of legal rulings since have led some to question whether it h…
View article: Automation and the future of work: A social shaping of technology approach
Automation and the future of work: A social shaping of technology approach Open
Recent years have seen enormous attention paid to automation and its potential implications for the future of work. This study rejects unhelpful speculation and, instead, poses the question ‘what is shaping automation and its predicted eff…
View article: New technology, trade unions and the future: not quite the end of organised labour
New technology, trade unions and the future: not quite the end of organised labour Open
This paper outlines different dimensions and historical features of the debate regarding worker organisations and the question of new technology at work. There has always been a tension between pessimistic views that highlight the difficul…
View article: Foreword
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This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. Beginning with an overview of over a dozen policies aimed at transforming these activities …
View article: List of figures
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This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. Beginning with an overview of over a dozen policies aimed at transforming these activities …
View article: Contents
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This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. Beginning with an overview of over a dozen policies aimed at transforming these activities …
View article: About the authors
About the authors Open
This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. Beginning with an overview of over a dozen policies aimed at transforming these activities …
View article: List of abbreviations
List of abbreviations Open
This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. Beginning with an overview of over a dozen policies aimed at transforming these activities …
View article: Employment law cases
Employment law cases Open
This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. Beginning with an overview of over a dozen policies aimed at transforming these activities …
View article: List of tables
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Tables 1.1 Structure of the book 15 2.1 Earnings of temporary workers as a share of earnings of permanent workers (2014) 36 4.1 Scope of joint consultative committees (percentages) 80 4.2 Union forms, levels and possible outcomes 82 4.3 Is…
View article: Front matter
Front matter Open
This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. Beginning with an overview of over a dozen policies aimed at transforming these activities …
View article: Bibliography
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This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. Beginning with an overview of over a dozen policies aimed at transforming these activities …
View article: Who speaks for whom at work: worker voice and social dialogue
Who speaks for whom at work: worker voice and social dialogue Open
Over the last few decades academic research has often neglected issues of power and influence concerning labour market institutions, employment regulation, models of collaborative partnership between workers, unions and employers, and syst…
View article: A Typology of Crowdwork Platforms
A Typology of Crowdwork Platforms Open
Despite growing interest in the gig economy among academics, policy makers and media commentators, the area is replete with different terminology, definitional constructs and contested claims about the ensuing transformation of work organi…