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Researchers present at BUIRA conference 2022
Digit researchers discuss their work at the BUIRA Annual Conference
Digit researchers present at 40th International Labour Process Conference
There were more than 15 presentations involving members of the Digit community at the 40th ILPC in Padua.
What matters more for employees’ mental health: job quality or job quantity?
Recent debates about whether the standard full-time working week (35–40 h) can be replaced by a shorter working week have received extensive attention. Using 2015 European Working Conditions Survey data, this study contributes to these debates by exploring the relationships between job quantity, job quality and employees’ mental health. [...]
Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs
David Graeber’s ‘bullshit jobs theory’ has generated a great deal of academic and public interest. This theory holds that a large and rapidly increasing number of workers are undertaking jobs that they themselves recognise as being useless and of no social value. Despite generating clear testable hypotheses, this theory [...]
Call for papers: Digit researchers edit special issue of Cambridge Journal of Economics
Digit researchers have issued a call for papers for a special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Economics on the Future of Work and Working Time.
Cut Hours, Not People: No Work, Furlough, Short Hours and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK (WP521)
The unprecedented shock to the UK economy inflicted by government measures to contain the Coronavirus (COVID-19) risked plunging millions of workers into unemployment as businesses were forced to close or scale back activity. To avoid that cliff edge, and the predictable damage to both workers mental health and to [...]
Short-time working: part of the solution to an economic and wellbeing crisis?
Brendan Burchell discusses whether short-time working might be the way forward for the UK
Digit’s Brendan Burchell discusses Covid-19 and working time in this video and blog
Blog - Brendan Burchell discusses Covid-19 and working time.