XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 15-21, 2018)

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Digital Labor II - New Forms of Enterprises, of Collaborations and Work in the Digital Economy.

RC30 Sociology of Work (host committee)
TG04 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty

Language: English and French

Contemporary capitalism is characterized by risk of ruptures and uncertainty which appear at times ‘when a society or a mode of production enters into crisis and transition’ (Fournier, Hamel et Lecavallier, 2010). From then on, social and economic models are affected and need to change and reorganize. These changes presently touch all industrialized nations and the traditional national models are questioned. Industries need to adapt their value chains to the new environment. What is now called the 4th industrial revolution, invites the various sectors and firms to integrate the new numerical technologies in all their activities, commercialization, product innovation or even work organization.

• First, the advent of the 4th industrial revolution, the numerical revolution, with a constant search for innovation and creativity;
• Secondly, a strong civic, private, public, national and local mobilization, where various ecosystems come together, bringing to the same table the associative, industrial, educational and political actors;
• And thirdly, there appears a new statute fo worker, an intermittent, project worker : the worker 2.0 who is found in various open innovation networks (P2P) (Chesbrough), for example ; at the other end of the spectrum, in the case of the uberization of work , we find a worker in the so-called collaborative or sharing economy. This uberization of work is however criticized and it would be interesting to have presentations and papers on these new forms of work and employment (an issue of the journal Interventions économiques-Papers in Political Economy is planned).