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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.
Session Organizers:
Byoung-Hoon LEE, Chung-Ang Univ., South Korea, Pamela MEIL, Colleague, Germany and Klaus SCHMIERL, Institute for Social Science Research (ISF), Germany
Discussant:
Tobias DREWLANI, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Oral Presentations
Digital Labour, Commodification and Expropriations Processes: Contributions from the Sociology of Bodies and Emotions
Adrian SCRIBANO, CONICET-IIGG-UBA, Argentina; Pedro LISDERO, CIECS (CONICET y UNC) / UNVM / CIES, Argentina
On the Relationship between Industrial Work and Democratized Production
Klara-Aylin WENTEN, Technical University Munich, Germany
Ambivalences of Autonomy and Control Under Digital Information Communication Technology Led Managerial Regimes.
Knut LAASER, Brandenburg University Cottbus, Germany; Heike JACOBSEN, Brandenburg University Cottbus, Germany
Institutional Drivers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Comparative Analysis of Impacts on Quality of Employment and of Work Explained in Three Regimes
Steven DHONDT, TNO, Netherlands; Peter OEIJ, TNO, Netherlands; Monique RAMIOUL, HIVA - KU Leuven, Belgium; Ezra DESSERS, KU Leuven, Belgium; Geert VAN HOOTEGEM, KU Leuven, Belgium
The Economy Politics of Robotization and Digitization: The Myth of Indusrty 4.0
Guven SAVUL, CONFEDERATION OF TURKISH TRADE UNIONS (TÜRK-İŞ), Turkey
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