Implications of technological change and austerity for employability in urban labour markets

Green, Anne E.

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“…These workers are engaged in a range of different occupations encompassing associate professional, skilled trade and lower-skilled (caring, leisure and personal services, process, plant and machine operatives) jobs. They are more likely to perform caring acts for ill/elderly relatives or friends, and to report an existing illness or disability, the latter finding consistent with this form of work providing opportunities to individuals who may face difficulties in more standard workplaces (Green, 2017(Green, : 1646. We also find lower satisfaction with health among these workers in line with this finding.…”

Section: Homeworkersmentioning

confidence: 81%

“…Of particular significance is the growth in forms of highly flexible or 'contingent' employment, including crowdsourcing/ e-lancing, in which buyers (i.e. employers, which can in some cases be the end-user) use web-based platforms to advertise tasks (jobs) which sellers (workers) bid to complete (Green, 2017(Green, : 1640(Green, -1641. In some cases, this effectively results in an 'employer' of this labour acting as an intermediary between workers and clients/end-users (Aloisi, 2016: 653).…”

Section: Changing Forms and Places Of Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Centralisation of workers in this way has long been considered advantageous to employers, offering agglomeration benefits including acting as a platform for communication and coordination, and facilitating monitoring and enforcement of routinised working practices by management (Shearmur, 2018;Zhu, 2013). Technological advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and mobile technologies, and the changing economic environment (Felstead and Henseke, 2017;Green, 2017Green, : 1645Hislop and Axtell, 2009), are changing working practices and decentralising workplaces (Houston and Reuschke, 2017). Urban employment centres, nevertheless, continue to gather both fixed and semi-mobile workers while acting as hubs for (hyper-)mobile workers to interact and create value (Shearmur, 2018: 74).…”

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Workplace location and the quality of work: The case of urban-based workers in the UK

Wheatley

2020

Urban Studies

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Recent growth in flexible work which is detached from traditional urban workplaces, including homeworking, mobile working and forms of self-employment (gig work), has increased interest in the quality of work. This article compares job quality indicators between urban-based workers in standard (employer/business premises) and non-standard (homeworking, driving/travelling, mobile working) workplaces. Multinomial logistic regression is applied to UK panel data from four waves (2010–2011, 2012–2013, 2014–2015, 2016–2017) of the Understanding Society study. The analysis finds that urban-based employees working at home, predominantly in highly skilled occupations, have jobs which exhibit a number of characteristics of good work. Self-employed homeworkers, more often women, have lower job quality but leisure satisfaction benefits. Mobile working jobs offer greater spatial and temporal flexibility and job satisfaction, but also exhibit lower quality characteristics evident of trade-offs and divisions between forms of mobile work. Driving/travelling jobs exhibit lower job quality characteristics, especially among self-employed urban-based workers.

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Section: Homeworkersmentioning

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Workplace location and the quality of work: The case of urban-based workers in the UK

Wheatley

2020

Urban Studies

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“…Rates of self-employment and freelancing, including work as independent contractors (King, 2014: 152), have grown. In addition, entirely new forms of work have been established through developments in digital technology, such as crowdworking/e-lancing, which are encapsulated in the term 'gig economy' (Friedman, 2014;Green, 2017Green, : 1640Green, -1641Harvey et al, 2017;Howcroft and Bergvall-Kåreborn, 2018). Gig work is a form of on-demand labour or 'piecework' (Alkhatib et al, 2017), which comprises work being performed as an independent contractor or consultant with the aim of completing a particular task or working for a defined period of time (Friedman, 2014;Harvey et al, 2017).…”

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Introduction to the Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives

Wheatley¹

2019

Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives

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“…Knowledge labor has been shaped by the rationales of creative work and has harmonized digital technologies into a diversity of operations, for digital and freelance personnel that configures a multi-functional professional division (Machan, 2016, B) with initial characteristics. The current socio-economic professional arena is contingent on the handling of social connections (Green, 2017) and the increase of the routes via which they are practiced, preserved, and mediated. The advance of social network sites (Ahmed, 2016) and platforms has considerably interfered within the routines and underlying forces of hiring in the industry.…”

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Digital Technologies, Labor Markets, and Economic Reputation

Lăzăroiu¹,

Rommer²

2017

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Following Gandini (2016), this paper strives to prove that knowledge work has altered with the incorporation of digital technologies into operations of production and organization. Influenced by the boost of electronic and social media, a digital and independent knowledge economy focused on a collective, dispersed cultural idea of reputation as usefulness resulted. Imagining reputation as a type of value is the predominant elucidatory pattern of knowledge work in the digital epoch. We aim to address these increasing features by elaborating on the fact that knowledge work has altered as a consequence of the visionary assessment of inventiveness as a slogan for cutting edge and professional development. We plan to determine that reputation becomes a particular type of particularized social capital for knowledge employees. We use meta-analysis to assess evidence proving that because the social buttons managing social undertakings on digital media platforms deal with and preserve an individual's full online activity, determining it with statistics, the reputation of a distinct employee is publicly observable, concrete, obtainable, and possibly quantifiable. We inspected the Web of Science and identified 240 papers covering the impact of reputation on the socioeconomic interactions in digital labor markets. We analyzed them carefully and present our conclusions, highlighting that reputation adjusts the professional market of the knowledge economy by functioning as a particular kind of capital or positive feature for people in a setting constituted of networked and recently mediatized social interplay.

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Implications of technological change and austerity for employability in urban labour markets

Abstract: Over the last decade two key changes affecting employability, labour market operation and policy delivery are austerity and the expansion of the use of information and communication

Cited by 18 publications

References 26 publications

Workplace location and the quality of work: The case of urban-based workers in the UK

Workplace location and the quality of work: The case of urban-based workers in the UK

Introduction to the Handbook of Research Methods on the Quality of Working Lives

Digital Technologies, Labor Markets, and Economic Reputation

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