Economia informale e lavoro digitale nella cashless society: una cartografia

Coin, Francesca and De Nicola, Alberto and Greppi, Spartaco (2019) Economia informale e lavoro digitale nella cashless society: una cartografia. Sociologia del lavoro, 2019 (154). pp. 31-43. ISSN 0392-5048

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Abstract

This introduction reflects upon the relationship between three distinct fields of analysis: sociological research related to digital work and platform capitalism; sociological research related to digital money; and literature related to unpaid labour and the informal economy. Its hypothesis is that the joint study of these three research areas allows us to identify, within the wider field of digital labour and the digital economy, the tendency to reconvert informal economic practices into formal ones. This theoretical choice reflects the need to understand the transformations of labor in the current era, taking into account the widespread tendency towards cashlessness, i.e. a society based mainly on digital transactions rather than on cash. In this perspective, the process of digitisation represents a complex transition that exposes individuals to digital surveillance, thus allowing data and value to be constantly extracted from economic flows and social behaviour to be constantly controlled and regulated.

Item Type:	Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article
Subjects:	Social studies > Sociology > Socio-economics
Department/unit:	Dipartimento economia aziendale, sanità e sociale > Centro competenze lavoro, welfare e società
Depositing User:	Spartaco Greppi
Date Deposited:	12 Nov 2019 06:16
Last Modified:	24 Aug 2023 14:00
URI:	http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/11283

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