Businesses and governments grapple to contain the quasi-anarchic deployment of apps, data analytics and new forms of business and employment. The enormous growth in the rate of IT computing power, storage capacity, connectedness and software applications is transforming employment, disrupting businesses and challenging labour regulations. The culmination of the project can be read in the full volume, available to download here and in hard copy from Rowman and Littlefield, with a selection of contributions that set the context of the debate below.įollowing the launch of the book, we’ll be bringing together key thinkers and policymakers at a series of conferences across Europe, the first event taking place in Paris in July.
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They consider how to unlock the vast economic and social potential of new technologies and the implications for policy innovation at the firm, sectoral and state level. In a series of essays, we hear from more than 50 policy experts across the world on the effects of automation, platform business models, stagnating productivity, and rising level of inequality within and between countries.
Drawing on a wide range of international expertise, a major new publication examines the critical policy challenges arising from the transformation of work in the digital age. While global in nature, the fourth industrial revolution is evidently moving at different speeds through different national contexts. A new comparative project by Max Neufeind (Das Progressive Zentrum), Jacqueline O’Reilly (University of Sussex) and Florian Ranft (Policy Network) sheds light on the impact of these developments across Europe and beyond.