Work and Inequality in the Shadow of the Digital Age
By Edward Webster
Drawing on a selection of ethnographic studies of precarious work in Africa, this book discusses globalisation and digitalisation as drivers for structural change and examines the implications for labour.
Counter mobilisation by the new worker
The book explores the role of digital technology in new business models and how it can be harnessed for counter mobilisation by the new worker.
Much of the debate on the future of work has focused on responses to technological trends in the Global North, with little evidence on how these trends are impacting work and workers in the Global South.
Drawing on a rich selection of ethnographic studies of precarious work in Africa, this innovative book discusses how globalisation and digitalisation are drivers for structural change and examines their implications for labour.
Bringing together global labour studies and inequality studies, it explores the role of digital technology in new business models and how it can be harnessed for counter mobilisation by the new worker.
About the author
Edward Webster is Distinguished Research Professor at the Southern Centre of Inequality Studies and the founder and past director of the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
He was the recipient of the first South African Sociological Association (SASA) lifetime award for his contribution to the academic study of the sociology of work and labour in South Africa.
- Publisher | Wits University Press |
- ISBN | 9781776148820 |
- Recommended Price | R300.00 |
- Subject | Sociology & Anthropology |
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