{"title":"Putting the university to work: The subsumption of academic labour in UK's shift to digital higher education","authors":"M. Ivancheva, B. Garvey","doi":"10.1111/ntwe.12237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12237","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers how the formal and real subsumption of academic labour in UK higher education are exposed and exacerbated by the move towards online teaching, assessment and communication. These processes have been expedited by the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and attention is drawn to the technology-driven organisational and operational innovations that are transforming academic divisions of labour and labour processes. These changes, particularly in relation to the separation of research and teaching, and to the deprofessionalisation, modularisation, and outsourcing of the latter, are the focus of the paper. We argue that the formal subsumption of knowledge production (research) through commercialisation dovetails with a real subsumption of socially reproductive work (teaching) that is undergoing qualitative transformation in an increasingly marketised higher education sector. We show how digitalisation actively contributes to the growing standardisation and flexibilisation of work, deepens long-standing gendered divisions of labour, and dissolves even further the blurred work/life boundaries for precariously employed workers. These new hallmarks of the contemporary subsumption present new challenges to workers and their collective organisations in Higher Education.","PeriodicalId":51550,"journal":{"name":"New Technology Work and Employment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41642445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The combustible mix of coalitional and discursive power: British trade unions, social media and the People's Assembly Against Austerity","authors":"Torsten Geelan","doi":"10.1111/ntwe.12236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12236","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates how the British trade union movement sought to challenge the politics of austerity after the North Atlantic financial crisis of 2008 by founding a union ‐ led coalition: the People's Assembly Against Austerity. To lay the ground for the study, it redefines the concept of discursive power as the capacity of trade unions to influence the public debate by producing and self ‐ mediating frames and circulating them through the mainstream media, the Internet and social media to a mass audience. Data were collected over 3 years (2013 – 2015) using interviews and scraping tweets from Twitter. The findings reveal how the People's Assembly created and sustained a heterogenous coalition through a policy of nonpartisanship and a consensus ‐ driven decentralised network of grassroots local assemblies orchestrated by a national organisation. The article contributes to the literature on trade union revitalisation by demonstrating how combining coalitional and discursive power is a combustible mix that can help revitalise the political influence of trade unions.","PeriodicalId":51550,"journal":{"name":"New Technology Work and Employment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43582416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about GlobalizationLeoMcCannSage Publications LTD (UK). (2018) 160 pages, £15.99 paperback, £49.99 hardcover","authors":"A. Kozhevnikov","doi":"10.1111/ntwe.12238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12238","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51550,"journal":{"name":"New Technology Work and Employment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44952467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issue Information","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/ntwe.12198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12198","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51550,"journal":{"name":"New Technology Work and Employment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42870396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technology in care systems: Displacing, reshaping, reinstating or degrading roles?","authors":"Kate A Hamblin","doi":"10.1111/ntwe.12229","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ntwe.12229","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the United Kingdom and further afield, policy discourse has focused on the efficiencies technology will afford the care sector by increasing workforce capacity at a time when there are recruitment and retention issues. Previous research has explored the impact of telecare and other technologies on roles within the care sector, but issues related to job quality and the consequences of newer digital technologies that are increasingly being deployed in care settings are under researched. Through an exploration of the literature on robotics and empirical studies of telecare and mainstream 'smart' digital technology use in UK adult social care, this paper examines how these technologies are generating new forms of work and their implications for job quality, arguing the tendency to prioritise technology results in the creation 'machine babysitters' and 'fauxtomatons'.</p>","PeriodicalId":51550,"journal":{"name":"New Technology Work and Employment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9304303/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40659783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital intrusions or distraction at work and work‐Life conflict","authors":"F. Farivar, O. Esmaeelinezhad, J. Richardson","doi":"10.1111/ntwe.12235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12235","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51550,"journal":{"name":"New Technology Work and Employment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43708203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charting platform capitalism: Definitions, concepts and ideologies","authors":"Yin Liang, Jeremy Aroles, B. Brandl","doi":"10.1111/ntwe.12234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12234","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51550,"journal":{"name":"New Technology Work and Employment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46631463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information systems in nurses' work: Technical rationality versus an ethic of care","authors":"Minna Salminen‐Karlsson, D. Golay","doi":"10.1111/ntwe.12231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12231","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51550,"journal":{"name":"New Technology Work and Employment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48682861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconsidering digital labour: Bringing tech workers into the debate","authors":"Robert Dorschel","doi":"10.1111/ntwe.12225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12225","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51550,"journal":{"name":"New Technology Work and Employment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44203780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}