Conference Sessions

The Conference sessions are listed below in alphabetical order.  Use the search box above to find sessions by keyword. Additional events are being added and session information is subject to change.

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(WPO3) Digital Technologies, Work, and the Platform Economy

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New digital technologies have facilitated the emergence of the platform economy, transforming work in sectors including delivery services, retail, ride sharing, and data annotation. While work in some platform economy occupations at times seems to offer a degree of autonomy for workers, platform work simultaneously constructs conditions of precariousness, thereby generating new workplace struggles. Set in a context of rapid technological innovation, the proliferation of precarious employment, and new forms of technological surveillance and management, this session explores both the impacts of digital technologies on the organization of work and the emergence of platform worker resistance, in Canada and internationally.
This session is cross-listed with the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS).

Organizer: Mark Thomas, Department of Sociology, York University