Labour Conflicts in the Digital Age: A Comparative Perspective

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Labour Conflicts in the Digital Age: A Comparative Perspective
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1 Class and Contention: Social Movement Studies and Labour Studies
	Class and contention: an introduction
	Bridging approaches in industrial relations and social movement studies
	Class and capitalism: beyond the new social movement approach
	The collective organization of labour: beyond resource mobilization
	Political consciousness through collective action: on emergent subjectivities
	Our research and this volume
2 The New World of Digital Work: Structural Changes and Labour Recomposition
	Digitalization of labour and global value chains
	Labour recomposition processes in the new phase of digitalization
		Value, relations, and identities in the new phase of digitalization
		Digitalization beyond technological determinism
	Between automation and flexibility: work and the new politics of production in advanced manufacturing
		Industry 4.0 and the smart factory: flexibility, digitalization, and automation revisited
		Beyond fragmentation: recomposing labour in the new world of work
	Digital labour between invisibility and platformization
		Redefining labour and value
		Digital technology and the new assembly line
	Conclusions
3 Challenges to Collective Action in Digital Work
	Defining digital work
	Fragmentation processes in digital work
		Legal fragmentation
		Technological fragmentation
		Organizational fragmentation
		Spatial fragmentation
		Social fragmentation
	Degrees of digital work fragmentation
	Conclusions
4 Organizing the Collective Action of Digital Workers
	Variations in the mobilization processes of digital workers: forms of organizing
	Organizing food-delivery couriers and Amazon drivers
	Organizing the Amazon Mechanical Turk workers
	Conclusions
5 Worker Collective Identity and Solidarity in Action in the Digital Age
	Collective identity in formation: from 1960s factory workers to digital workers
	The unfolding of digital worker mobilization processes: their forms of communication and action
	Solidarity in action among workers on demand via apps
	Solidarity in action among crowdworkers
	Conclusions
6 Labour Conflicts in the Digital Age: Some Conclusions
	Social movement and industrial relations studies: concluding reflections
	The structural transformations of the digital workforce
	Organizing collective action: a variety of forms of conflicts
	Solidarity in action: the formation of collective identities among workers in the digital age
	Class formation processes in times of digital work
	Conclusions
Appendix: List of Interviewees
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