Digital Work and the Platform Economy: Understanding Tasks, Skills and Capabilities in the New Era

ISBN-13: 9781032082721 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 248 str.

Seppo Poutanen; Anne Kovalainen; Petri Rouvinen

Opis

This volume gathers researchers from economics, business studies, organization studies, medicine, social psychology, occupational health, pedagogics, and sociology to put particular work in both public and private sectors and education in both academic and vocational settings at the focus of the emerging digitalized platform economy.

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List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Boxes

Contributor Biographies

I Introduction: Digital Work in Platform Economy

Seppo Poutanen, Anne Kovalainen, and Petri Rouvinen

II New facets of work and workers’ life in the digital platform economy

1 Martin Kenney, Petri Rouvinen, and John Zysman: Employment, work, and value creation in the era of digital platforms

2 Anne Kovalainen, Steven P. Vallas, and Seppo Poutanen: Theorizing work in the contemporary platform economy

3 Annina Ropponen, Jari J. Hakanen, Mervi Hasu, and Laura Seppänen: Workers’ health, wellbeing, and safety in the digitalizing platform economy

　

III Challenges to skills and capabilities in the digital platform economy

4 Kaisa Hytönen and Anne Kovalainen: Vocational education goes to industry: Future skills at work derive from novel models of cooperation

5 Aija Leiponen and Annu Kotiranta: Digital disruption in the making: Digitalization of Finnish employment agencies

6 Maija Vähämäki, Tero Kuusi, Maarit Laiho, and Martti Kulvik: The road to productivity with automatization: Dialogue between the experienced and measured

7 Satu Aaltonen: The digitalization of migrants’ labor market integration services: Boosting or hindering social inclusion?

IV Theoretical opportunities for understanding new emergent phenomena in the digital platform economy

8 Eveliina Saari, Mervi Hasu, Sari Käpykangas, and Anne Kovalainen: Emergence of agentic professional competence in the digitalization of social services and healthcare

9 Laura Seppänen and Seppo Poutanen: Cultural transition in the sharing economy: Introducing platform work with activity concepts

10 Seppo Poutanen: Ontologically sound basis for analyzing academia, digitalization, and entrepreneurship together: A solution to the sociomaterialistic puzzle of "strong relationality"

Index

O autorze

Seppo Poutanen is Senior Research Fellow and Docent of Sociology at the University of Turku’s School of Economics, Finland.

Anne Kovalainen is Professor at the University of Turku’s School of Economics, Finland.

Petri Rouvinen is Senior Economist at Avance Attorneys Ltd.