Gig Economy and Uberization of Work as Preliminary Stages of Technological Unemployment

• Autorzy: Alan Golec

Warianty tytułu

Zjawisko gig economy i uberyzacja pracy jako wstępne etapy bezrobocia technologicznego

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

In the article, the author uses desk research methods (scientific discourse analysis and secondary data analysis) to argue that the contemporary phenomena of employment changes: gig economy, and uberization can be interpreted as presages and preliminary stages of the forthcoming technological unemployment. The focus is set on the atomization of work, usage of the platforms, automated supervision, control over the process of work assignment and performance, and the linguistic shift in discourse. As a result, it can be assumed that some of the most distinctive features of uberization, understood as an ongoing process in the gig economy can be connected with the specific models of the emergence of technological unemployment - these models are related to automating specific skills, routine activities or the whole occupations. (original abstract)

W artykule autor posługuje się metodami desk research (analiza dyskursu naukowego i analiza danych wtórnych), aby dowieść, że współczesne zjawiska zmian zatrudnienia: gig economy (ekonomia fuch) i uberyzacja mogą być interpretowane jako zapowiedzi i wstępne etapy nadchodzącego bezrobocia technologicznego. Autor skupia się na atomizacji pracy, wykorzystaniu platform, zautomatyzowanym nadzorze, kontroli nad procesem przydzielania i wykonywania pracy i zmianie językowej w dyskursie. W rezultacie można stwierdzić, że najbardziej charakterystyczne cechy uberyzacji, rozumianej jako trwający proces kształtowania gig economy, można powiązać z konkretnymi modelami powstawania bezrobocia technologicznego - modele te dotyczą automatyzacji konkretnych umiejętności, czynności rutynowych lub całych zawodów. (abstrakt oryginalny)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Technological unemployment; Sharing economy; Crowdsourcing

PL

Bezrobocie technologiczne; Ekonomia współdzielenia; Crowdsourcing

• Czasopismo: Nauki Ekonomiczne
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: 36
• Strony: 243--254

Twórcy

autor

Alan Golec

• Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN w Krakowie

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.19251/ne/2022.36(12)