The New Digital Workplace

How New Technologies Revolutionise Work

Kendra Briken author Shiona Chillas author Martin Krzywdzinski author Abigail Marks author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:30th Mar '17

Should be back in stock very soon

The New Digital Workplace cover

With contributions from over 20 leading scholars from across the globe, this new book brings together a number of papers that have been presented at the annual International Labour Process Conference, at which the conference theme ‘Working Revolutions: Revolutionising Work’ provided the inspiration for many of the chapters included in this volume. Grounded in Labour Process Theory, the text examines how digital technologies impact on work and organisations and provides a rigorous account of the technological, organizational and work related changes in both the new digital industries and in the traditional service and manufacturing sectors. The book covers many of the most significant contemporary issues and subjects in the field, including the representation of women in IT, workplace cyberbulling, virtualisation and the video games industry. This book is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students studying modules related to technology and work, as well as modules in work sociology on sociology degree programmes.

Briken, Chillas, Krzywdzinski and Marks offer a timely look at the impact of emerging technology and digitisation in the workplace, with research that spans multiple countries and industries … The inclusion of a broad range of case studies … will be relevant for students of both technology and work … book provides an internationally oriented and timely look at how new technologies are altering the workplace, with a specific eye towards the tension between efficiency-driven capital and outcomes for workers. * Rebecca Downes, Labour and Industry, Vol. 24 (3) *

ISBN: 9781137610133

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 491g

271 pages