Abstract
Introducing this issue, this paper reflects on the role of peer-reviewed research in documenting and analysing the restructuring of labour under rapidly changing global conditions. It summarises the contents of the issue, placing it in the context not only of the 2020-2021 global COVID-19 pandemic, but also in relation to past theoretical debates in the pages of this journal about the dynamics of platform capitalism.
Highlights
In its 15 years of publication, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation has charted in its pages many aspects of the complex restructuring of work that has been taking place around the globe
Platform labour was emerging as a key component of the reorganisation of daily life under lockdown conditions, strengthening some pre-existing trends and deflecting others, while bringing to public visibility many previously hidden aspects of the working conditions of platform workers, including the physical risks faced by front-line workers in a pandemic
We put out a call for a special issue on ‘Platform labour in the post-COVID city’
Summary
In its 15 years of publication, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation has charted in its pages many aspects of the complex restructuring of work that has been taking place around the globe. It is clear that the global financial crisis of 2008 represented an important turning point, accelerating the speed of change and bringing to prominence a number of trends that had been hard to discern in preceding periods, ushering in a decade of major restructuring all around the globe.
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