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Conference „Work and Social Justice in the Digital Age“

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20. February 2025

On 13 December 2024, the Swiss Labour Research Network LABORIS and the community WORK of the Digital Society Initiative DSI have organised a conference. The slides of most presentations are now available online (see below).

IMPLICATIONS OF PLATFORMISATION IN DOMESTIC AND CARE WORK
Camille Budon, Jessica Pidoux, Núria, Sánchez-Mira UNINE
The platformisation of domestic and care work in French-speaking Switzerland: a typology

Christiane Meyer-Habighorst UZH, Christina Mittmasser HESGE, Karin Schwiter UZH
“This big shadow that we need to turn into light” – How labour intermediaries moralise commodified domestic care work

Loïc Pignolo HSG
Between formalisation and reinforcement of inequalities: the ambivalent role of digital platforms for paid domestic work in Switzerland

PROMOTING SOCIAL JUSTICE IN PLATFORM LABOUR
Aju John, Nicolás Palacios ETHZ
Digital labor, migratory regimes, and social reproduction: the case of platform delivery workers in Berlin and Barcelona

Luca Perrig HSG
How ethical is crowdsourced ethical hacking?

CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE WORLD OF WORK
Christian Gschwendt UNIBE
How scary is the risk of automation? Evidence from a large-scale survey experiment

Jana Z’Rotz HSLU/UNIL
From flexibility to stress? The impact of telework on paid work-life balance and well-being

Helena Hof UZH
Participation in the labour market through transnational entrepreneurship: Migrant entrepreneurs navigating professional work in Singapore and Japan

REGULATING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
Kurt Pärli UNIBAS
Labour and social security status of platform work in Switzerland – status quo and legal policy developments

Nicolas Pons-Vignon SUPSI
Power relations in the digital economy

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