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Digital Work and the Platform Economy Understanding Tasks, Skills and Capabilities in the New Era

248 Pages

by Routledge

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by Routledge

246 Pages

by Routledge

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"Uberization," "digitalization," "platform economy," "gig economy," and "sharing economy" are some of the buzzwords that characterize the current intense discussions about the development of the economy and work around the world, among both experts and laypersons. Immense changes in the ways goods are manufactured, business is done, work tasks are performed, education is accomplished, and so on,... Read more

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Contributor Biographies

I Introduction: Digital Work in Platform Economy

Seppo Poutanen, Anne Kovalainen, and Petri Rouvinen

II New facets of work and workers’ life in the digital platform economy

1 Martin Kenney, Petri Rouvinen, and John Zysman: Employment, work, and value creation in the era of digital platforms

2 Anne Kovalainen, Steven P. Vallas, and Seppo Poutanen: Theorizing work in the contemporary platform economy

3 Annina Ropponen, Jari J. Hakanen, Mervi Hasu, and Laura Seppänen: Workers’ health, wellbeing, and safety in the digitalizing platform economy

III Challenges to skills and capabilities in the digital platform economy

4 Kaisa Hytönen and Anne Kovalainen: Vocational education goes to industry: Future skills at work derive from novel models of cooperation

5 Aija Leiponen and Annu Kotiranta: Digital disruption in the making: Digitalization of Finnish employment agencies

6 Maija Vähämäki, Tero Kuusi, Maarit Laiho, and Martti Kulvik: The road to productivity with automatization: Dialogue between the experienced and measured

7 Satu Aaltonen: The digitalization of migrants’ labor market integration services: Boosting or hindering social inclusion?

IV Theoretical opportunities for understanding new emergent phenomena in the digital platform economy

8 Eveliina Saari, Mervi Hasu, Sari Käpykangas, and Anne Kovalainen: Emergence of agentic professional competence in the digitalization of social services and healthcare

9 Laura Seppänen and Seppo Poutanen: Cultural transition in the sharing economy: Introducing platform work with activity concepts

10 Seppo Poutanen: Ontologically sound basis for analyzing academia, digitalization, and entrepreneurship together: A solution to the sociomaterialistic puzzle of "strong relationality"

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