This paper engages with debates in academic literatures over Industry 4.0 (i4. 0) and the
Future of Work (FoW), critiquing their development in practical isolation from each other …

The Economist newspaper identified 2019 as “peak smartphone.” The “most successful
consumer product in history” had reached four billion out of the world's five and half billion …

While existing studies assert that citizens actively use digital media to exert their political
agency, the various roles and impacts of digital media should be further unpacked. Building …

In Europe, as elsewhere in the global North, the label “Made in China” has become
synonymous with low wages, excessive overtime, and exploitative working conditions …

Mediatization remains a key concept for theorizing how our ever-evolving and intensifying
media and communications environment underwrites and (re) constructs our social world …

Today, if China is a dreamland for global capital looking for new forms of accumulation on
an unimaginable pace and scale, I argue that a new working class comprising rural migrants …

'Good health'is one of those fuzzy, mutable phrases that resists clear, stable definition as a
result of its imbrication in social processes that are 'notoriously vague [and exceedingly] …

This study analyzes a largely unexamined phenomenon in the studies of transnational
activism: immigrant activists' engagement in progressive social movements in their …

Page 1 Al Rainnie Andrew Herod Susan McGrath-Champ EE Elgar INDUSTRY 4.0 AND THE
FUTURE OF WORK Global Production Networks, Global Disassembly Networks, and the …

Background Accelerating digitalization has favoured the emergence of scattered workplaces
and created a trend towards asociality. Worker collectives, ie, formal and informal groups in …