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Digital Labor I - Changing World of Work and Employment Relations in the Era of 4th Industrial Revolution.
Digital Labor I - Changing World of Work and Employment Relations in the Era of 4th Industrial Revolution.
Tuesday, 17 July 2018: 15:30-17:20
Location: 711 (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)
RC30 Sociology of Work (host committee) Language: English
These days, the 4th Industrial Revolution(4IR) becomes a buzz word in many countries. The 4IR is characherized as a mega socio-economic transformation, which is driven by the fusing innovations of physical, digital and biological technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), 3D printing, nanotechonology, autonomous vehicles, cyber physical system (CPS), genetic editing, mobile supercomputing & big data. As Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, highlights in his book, the advent of the 4IR is seen as fundamentally changing the landscape of economic and business operations, and some advanced countries have taken strategic steps to reconfigure industrial structures and technological capabilities in this direction, as exemplified by Industry 4.0 in Germany. While the technological transformation of 4IR has become the center of attention among policy-makers, business groups, and public media, little light has been cast on its impact over working people and the existing labor regimes. In this light, our session aims to collect and exchange research findings about the effect of recent technological changes, led by any elements of the 4IR, on working life and employment relations, and how working people and labor unions have responded to these transformations at their workplaces and in the state- and industry-level policy-making, in different countries and diverse industrial sectors.
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