Frontiers in Sociology, vol. 10 (2025) - Research Topic: Digital transformations and the changing nature of work

• Type: Another Publication in an International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2025

Authors

Cruz, Sofia Alexandra (Editor) FEP; Soeiro, José (Author) FLUP

Journal

Title: Frontiers in Sociology

Vol. 172

Publisher: Frontiers Media

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Authenticus ID: P-01A-F37

DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1741944

Abstract (EN): Digital transformation of work, the rise of online technologies and virtual employment relations have become a central theme of scholarly and political concern over the past decade (Chen et al., 2024; Crouch, 2018; Drahokoupil, 2021; ILO, 2018, 2024; Ness, 2023; Srnicek, 2016; Vallas and Schor, 2020; Wood et al., 2025). Online labor platforms, algorithmic management, remote work, automation and artificial intelligence are reconfiguring how work is performed, organized, and experienced, giving origin to new inequalities between social groups, genders, regions and countries, but also new business models, subjective agencies and resistances. This shift has intensified in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has functioned as an accelerant for already ongoing trends that are changing how work is done and what it means to work. In this context, the Research Topic on “Digital Transformations and the Changing Nature of Work” sought to gather diverse contributions that would interrogate these transformations from multiple angles and offer empirical and methodological insights, theoretical frameworks, and grounded case studies from different regions of the world, from the US to the Gulf countries, from southern Europe to Turkey or Brazil. The seven articles included in the current Research Topic offer a nuanced understanding of different aspects of the digital transformations of work, its impacts and challenges. (...)

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 3