Reconfiguring work and organizing for post-pandemic futures
(2020) In Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization 20(4). p.1-18- Abstract
- Across the world, the pandemic has made many of us rapidly change (at least temporarily) how we organize, work, and live, provoking a series of urgent questions. What is our relationship with the family, community, environment and the state? How should we structure our work? How do we value essential work and workers? How are we going to live, work, and organize differently in a post-pandemic world? This editorial to the open issue of ephemera, written amidst the pandemic, starts with a reflection on the new configurations of work and production. We then zoom in on the current trend of digitalization. The remaining part of the editorial reframes work and economy in terms of care and shows how resistance and action for alternatives can be... (More)
- Across the world, the pandemic has made many of us rapidly change (at least temporarily) how we organize, work, and live, provoking a series of urgent questions. What is our relationship with the family, community, environment and the state? How should we structure our work? How do we value essential work and workers? How are we going to live, work, and organize differently in a post-pandemic world? This editorial to the open issue of ephemera, written amidst the pandemic, starts with a reflection on the new configurations of work and production. We then zoom in on the current trend of digitalization. The remaining part of the editorial reframes work and economy in terms of care and shows how resistance and action for alternatives can be organized. It is concluded with some examples of initiatives for socio-ecological transformation that were articulated during the pandemic. (Less)
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- Chertkovskaya, Ekaterina LU ; Alakavuklar, Ozan Nadir ; Husted, Emil and Rácz, Márton
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- work, alternative organizing, COVID-19, digitalization, resistance, care
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- Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization
- volume
- 20
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 1 - 18
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- www.ephemerajournal.org
- ISSN
- 1473-2866
- language
- English
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- yes
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- def054d4-060b-49ed-aac7-04c56bf5b2a3
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- http://ephemerajournal.org/contribution/reconfiguring-work-and-organizing-post-pandemic-futures
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