The Social Consequences of the Digital Revolution

Krzywdzinski, Martin; Gerber, Christine; Evers, Maren

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“…On the basis of these laws, the surveyed works councils were able to prevent most of management's attempts to expand classical surveillance to the extraordinary degree now available to it. 12 Instead, another mode of control has emerged that can be termed a cybernetic one [8]. Thereby, data on labor processes was used primarily for immediate feedback to workers.…”

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“…Internationally, the overwhelming majority of studies research algorithmic management in the context of the so-called platform or gig economy [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. In the German context, which will be central to this article, this focus is supplemented by studies that research algorithmic management in the context of manufacturing [8][9][10][11][12]. There is a consensus among those studies that at the level of the labor process, algorithmic management enables extensive surveillance and, in terms of employment relations, contributes to precar-the different forms in which workers influence the use of technology at work.…”

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Technopolitics from Below: A Framework for the Analysis of Digital Politics of Production

Schaupp

2021

Nanoethics

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This article develops a multi-level framework for the analysis of a bottom-up politics of technology at the workplace. It draws on a multi-case study on algorithmic management of manual labor in manufacturing and delivery platforms in Germany. In researching how workers influenced the use of algorithmic management systems, the concept of technopolitics is developed to refer to three different arenas of negotiation: (1) the arena of regulation, where institutional framings of technologies in production are negotiated, typically between state actors, employers’ associations, and unions. (2) The arena of implementation, where strategies of technology deployment are negotiated—in the German production model typically between management and works council. (3) The arena of appropriation, in which different organizational technocultures offer contesting schemes for the actual use of technology at work. Whereas most recent research on digitalization of work conceptualizes workers as mere objects of digitalization processes, this paper focuses on worker agency as a “technopolitics from below.” It thus demonstrates how workers influence the concrete outcome of digitalization projects.

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Technopolitics from Below: A Framework for the Analysis of Digital Politics of Production

Schaupp

2021

Nanoethics

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“…On the other hand, increasing their use among employees makes it easier to monitor professional activities, providing a higher degree of centralization [31]. For example, one of the forms of employment that has appeared and is rapidly developing in the platform economy is the crowd work [32], which involves the transfer of business functions and tasks through Internet platforms to external parties who perform this work online in the digital cloud from different places around the world [33].…”

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Assessment of the Impact of Cloud Technologies on Social Life in the Era of Digitalization

Panfilova

Lukyanova

Pronkin

et al. 2021

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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<span lang="EN-US">Due to the expansion of new digital trends in the strategic development of territorial units, it became necessary to structure the socio-economic effects from the introduction of innovative technologies grounded on cloud computing. Realized the identification of cloud technologies impact on the social life in the era of digitalization, an online conference was held between representatives of government, business, science, and education of the Republics of Karelia, Komi, Adygea, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar Krai and Stavropol Krai (Russian Federation). In the context of innovative possibilities of platform economy, in discussion were identified the key effects of the cloud solutions implementation in the Russian Federation regions development prospect strategy. Namely, development of social and human capital, improvement of the quality and standard of living in a region, improvement of social interaction, development of social constructivism, economic potential, and competitiveness of social capital. It has been reported that the positive social effects of cloud technologies at the level of a territorial unit are achieved by increasing digital literacy of the population and opening up new opportunities and platforms for social interaction and constructivism; providing the population with convenient services and open data for participation in active social, economic and political life. Cloud technologies help to form a digital educational environment, modernize educational programs for the preparation of high-quality labor resources, develop digital infrastructure of individual settlements, create user content to preserve socio-cultural identity, and popularize a region in the global information space. Revealed that the possibilities of cloud technologies increase the population quality of living and ensure the growth of the efficiency and productivity indicators of labor resources. The listed above are achieved by expanding the marketing capabilities of business structures, providing them with new business models and digital services; optimization of resource management, digitization of business processes, and platform organization of labor. The capabilities of cloud solutions allow for the formation of flexible and effective interregional and international cooperation in a region, having a positive impact on regional economy and social capital development.</span>

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“…However, there might be non-negligible differences across countries with different development levels and factor endowments in the nature of work and the routine task content of 'identical' occupations (Dicarlo et al 2016;Hardy et al 2018). For example, Dörrenbächer et al (2018) and Krzywdzinski et al (2018) argue that, instead of upskilling and empowering workers, digital technology implementation in central and eastern Europe (CEE) might lead to a kind of digital Taylorism; that is, to an increasing standardisation of processes and deskilling. Keister and Lewandowski (2017) highlight that, in contrast to advanced economies experiencing routinereplacing technical change, routine-intensive employment kept growing in CEE in the 2010s, particularly in the manufacturing sector.…”

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“…However, except for some surveys assessing skill use in the workplace and the distribution of routine and non-routine work (e.g. Hardy et al 2018;Marcolin et al 2016), there is a dearth of studies exploring digital technologies-induced changes in the nature of work in 'factory economies' specialised in labourintensive activities 2 (Dörrenbächer et al 2018;Krzywdzinski 2017;Krzywdzinski et al 2018).…”

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Digital technologies and the nature and routine intensity of work: Evidence from Hungarian manufacturing subsidiaries

Szalavetz

2021

SSRN Journal

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This paper explores the impact of digital technologies on the nature and routine intensity of shopfloor work, the ways in which digital technologies exert their effects and the factors moderating the outcomes of digitalisation in respect of work.The effect of technology cannot be limited to a dichotomy of increasing versus decreasing degrees of routine. Instead, there are basic scenarios as far as the routine content of activities is concerned: a) no change in routine; b) increased routine; c) transformed routine; d) reduced routine.More specifically, drawing on data from Hungarian companies, we discuss the multiple ways that technology affects the nature and routineness of work. These include (i) workload and intensity of work; (ii) the degree to which tasks can be explicitly defined, measured and codified; (iii) task spectrum, i.e. the variability, complexity and diversity of work tasks; (iv) the composition and amount of skills required for task execution; (v) the importance of experience or tacit knowledge for task execution; and (vi) the value added of work tasks.Evidence indicates that the qualitative enrichment of shopfloor work and digital technology-induced reduction in the routine content of job tasks apply only to relatively skilled employees, albeit not exclusively in high-level shopfloor functions. It is argued that the beneficial effects of digital technologies materialise only if employees are skilled enough to be upskilled and become engaged not only in digitally-assisted but also in digitally-augmented, high-value activities.Finally, positive developments in the nature of work require that employees' work tasks be reorganised, work design and work practices modified and employees upskilled: thus, they are contingent on conscious organisational and human resources management.Without these intentional managerial interventions, digital technology implementation entails deskilling and/or technological unemployment rather than providing richer dimensions to shopfloor work. Digital technologies and the nature and routine intensity of work WP 2021.01 5 Digital technologies and the nature and routine intensity of work WP 2021.01 9

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The Social Consequences of the Digital Revolution

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Technopolitics from Below: A Framework for the Analysis of Digital Politics of Production

Technopolitics from Below: A Framework for the Analysis of Digital Politics of Production

Assessment of the Impact of Cloud Technologies on Social Life in the Era of Digitalization

Digital technologies and the nature and routine intensity of work: Evidence from Hungarian manufacturing subsidiaries

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