Work in the Digital Age: A Coursebook on Labor, Technology, and Regulation, First Edition
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The first of its kind, this coursebook examines the work of the future. Work in the Digital Age: A Coursebook on Labor, Technology, and Regulation focuses on certain technologies: the platform economy and gig work, big data and people analytics, gamification, artificial intelligence and algorithmic management, blockchain technology, drones, and 3D printing. The book provides perspectives on these new and emerging technologies from employers, unions, individual workers, national courts and governments, and international organizations. Altogether, the book questions whether current systems of labor and employment regulation are adequate and appropriate to respond to these new technologies. Finally, the book examines potential policy solutions to technological unemployment including universal basic income, shorter hours, and job guarantees. The best way to shape the future of work is to create the policy changes that we wish to see now, and this book provides a blueprint for thinking about a future of work that is productive, efficient, equitable, and sustainable.
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A focus on certain technologies:
The platform economy and gig work
Big data and people analytics
Gamification
Artificial intelligence and algorithmic management
Blockchain technology
Drones
3D printing
Global perspectives on these new and emerging technologies from employers, unions, individual workers, national courts and governments, and international organizations
Exploration of whether new systems of labor and employment regulation are necessary to better respond to these new technologies
Discussion of potential policy solutions to technological unemployment including universal basic income, shorter hours, and job guarantees
Notes and Questions, Problems, Exercises, and Examples, to help reinforce concepts and issues
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About the authors
Miriam Cherry
Professor of Law and Co-Director of the William C. Wefel Center for Employment Law
Saint Louis University School of Law
Miriam A. Cherry is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the William C. Wefel Center for Employment Law at Saint Louis University School of Law. After graduation from law school, Professor Cherry clerked for Justice Roderick Ireland of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and then for Judge Gerald Heaney of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In 2001, a transition to the private sector took Cherry to the Boston firm of Foley Hoag LLP, where she practiced corporate law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, securities compliance filings, venture capital, and private debt financing. She was also associated with the firm of Berman, DeValerio & Pease, where she was involved in litigating several accounting fraud cases including those against former telecom giant WorldCom and Symbol Technologies, which resulted in a $139 million settlement. Cherry has been on the faculty or visited at a number of law schools, including the University of Georgia, University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law, and Cumberland School of Law. In 2008, she was elected a member of the American Law Institute. Professor Cherry's scholarship is interdisciplinary and focuses on the intersection of technology and globalization with business, contract, and employment law topics.In her recent work, Cherry analyzes crowdfunding, markets for corporate social responsibility, virtual work, and social entrepreneurship.
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First Edition
Publication date
2021-02-10
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2021
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