Universität Wien

240067 VO+UE VM2 / VM3 - The Future of Work (2020S)

platform capitalism, automation, digitalization

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
SGU

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

geblockt im September

Mittwoch 16.09. 10:00 - 14:30 Digital
Freitag 18.09. 10:00 - 14:30 Digital
Montag 21.09. 10:00 - 14:30 Digital
Mittwoch 23.09. 10:00 - 14:30 Digital
Freitag 25.09. 10:00 - 14:30 Digital

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Work comes in many different forms and the way people work has changed tremendously throughout history. In modern market economies featuring labor markets, wage labor becomes a pivotal factor to determine one’s life chances and access to societal resources and privileges. The role of technological innovation is particularly ambiguous: While it could potentially increase overall wealth and/or decrease the societal need for long working hours, technological change and automation continuously threaten parts of the working population with displacement. Current public debates about automation, artificial intelligence and digitalization have precipitated a resurgence of fears of unemployment and displacement among some, while others predict a future without scarcity.
This course introduces students into the sociology of work, particularly into the academic study of changing technological and work relations. Students will learn pivotal concepts from economic sociology, political economy and heterodox economics and apply them to theories of platform capitalism, automation, digitalization, digital sufficiency and degrowth. Particular attention will be given to the impact of socio-technological change on unequal North-South relations.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Active participation in class, reading the texts, preparing one group presentation based on the assigned texts, final essay

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

Beverly Silver, "Theorising the Working Class in Twenty-First-Century Capitalism" (2013)
Jeremy Rifkin The Zero Marginal Cost Society (2014)
David H. Autor Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation (2015)
Nick Srnicek Platform capitalism (2016)
Phoebe Moore The Quantified Self in Precarity (2018)

Tbc.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

VM2, VM3

Letzte Änderung: Fr 12.05.2023 00:20