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Employers’ recruitment of disadvantaged groups: exploring the effect of active labour market programme agencies as labour market intermediaries
This article draws on an original comparative survey of employers in the UK and Denmark to analyse the role of active labour market programmes (ALMPs) in employers' recruitment of disadvantaged groups. Using the framework of Bonet et al. to conceptualise agencies delivering ALMPs as labour market intermediaries (LMIs), the [...]
The Social Protection of Workers in the Platform Economy
This study investigates the social protection of workers in the platform economy at the request of the European Parliament’s Employment and Social Affairs Committee. The report reviews literature and previous research on the platform economy with the aims of defining it and developing a typology for understanding its nature. [...]
Decent Work in a Digital World
Advances in digital technology and artificial intelligence are transforming the future of work. Self-driving trucks are due to be tested on UK roads in 2018 and are already being piloted in the US where around three million truck drivers and 8.7 million other people are employed in trucking-related jobs. [...]
Broadband and the creative industries in rural Scotland
The creative industries potentially contribute much to the social and economic viability of rural regions. This paper explores the role that broadband connectivity plays in the development of professional and creative practices. In particular, we explore the extent to which broadband connectivity can reduce the penalty of distance for [...]
Cultural resilience: the production of rural community heritage, digital archives and the role of volunteers
The following paper addresses a lacuna in the literature relating to the concept of resilience. To date, cultural activity in relation to resilient communities has been given little attention and this paper will highlight how the lens of community heritage activities and the ‘bottom-up’ role of volunteer labour can [...]
Logistics and cloud computing service providers’ cooperation: a resilience perspective
Cloud computing (CC) services can offer substantial cost-effective global operational and relationship benefits if the cooperation between logistics and CC services are resilient. Potential vulnerabilities to cooperation of CC and logistics service providers can occur with respect to vital factors such as security and trust. Extant studies have demonstrated [...]
Automation, Women, and the Future of Work
Will women benefit from the rapid automation and digitisation that is set to change the world of work as we know it? How can we ensure that women’s economic interests are brought into focus, and that debates on the future of work are not about the changing relationship between [...]
What the digitalisation of music tells us about capitalism, culture and the power of the information technology sector
This article examines a striking but under-analysed feature of culture under capitalism, using the example of music: that the main ways in which people gain access to cultural experiences are subject to frequent, radical and disorienting shifts. It has two main aims. The first is to provide a macro-historical, [...]
Work in and beyond the Second Machine Age: the politics of production and digital technologies
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, in their widely read and politically impactful book The Second Machine Age, highlight the costs and benefits of digital technologies for the volume and quality of work and identify reforms designed to ensure that digital technologies deliver net advantages to workers and society more [...]
Human capital metrics and analytics: assessing the evidence of the value and impact of people data
The purpose of this report is to investigate how published academic literature considers the value and impact of human capital metrics and analytics. The report looks to consider three main questions: How does academic literature report on the theory and practice of using HR data and/or human capital analytics? [...]