The "Disrupting Technology" conference calls for abstracts of careful, empirically grounded, theorisations of technology & its impact on work and employment relations. Asking what is genuinely novel about digital innovations & should be excellent & of interest to readers & authors of NTWE.

*New paper* "‘Gig’ Work and Fatherhood: A Typology of Ride-Share Fathers in Australia" Lisa Gulesserian, Alex Veen & Marian Baird develop a typology to examine what motivates fathers with dependent children to work in the gig economy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Special Issue deadline approaching: "Reshaping work: Disabled people’s inclusion & digitalization in the new world of work" Exploring how digitalization, AI, & machine learning affect job search, hiring processes & working life for disabled people: tinyurl.com/5n7znjzx Deadline: 31 January 2025

A few years back I made an in-depth study of this platform work, how they justified resorting to independent contractors and how that impacted workers livelihood published in @ntwejournal.bsky.social Will be interesting to follow how things will change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"The HIAL storm: Resisting the technological transformation of air traffic control". In this newly published article, @huwthomas.bsky.social & Peter Turnbull demonstrate how different power resources can complement, but also compromise workers' interests. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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