Work organisation, labour & globalisation
Volume 17, Number 1, 2023
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ISSN: 1745-641X
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Contents
Digitalisation and self-perpetuation: dynamics, drivers and temporalities of the transformation of working worlds 7
Manuel Nicklich and Sabine Pfeiffer
Governed by digital technology?: Self-perpetuation and social domination in digital capitalism 12
Konstantin Klur and Sarah Nies
Artificial intelligence in the practice of work: a new way of standardising or a means to maintain complexity? 34
Michael Heinlein and Norbert Huchler
Datafication and algorithmic contingency – how agile organisations deal with technical systems 61
Lene Baumgart, Pauline Boos and Bernd Eckstein
From ‘home work’ to ‘home office work’?: Perpetuating discourses and use patterns of tele(home)work since the 1970s: historical and comparative social perspectives 74
Michael Homberg, Laura Lükemann and Anja-Kristin Abendroth
The self-perpetuation of the promise of care robots: how doubtful application scenarios become promising 117
Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Kevin Wiggert, Martin Meister and Tim Clausnitzer
In control or out of control?: Worker perceptions of autonomy and control using self-reliant digital systems at airports 136
Mona-Maria Bardmann, Caroline Ruiner, Laura Künzel and Matthias Klumpp
Tika technology: an alternative blueprint for digitalisation 153
Luke Munn