The Future of Work

The Future of Work is a collective, interdisciplinary effort to grasp the trends that were reshaping the world of work before the Covid-19 pandemic along with its effects on the workers and labor markets. Written in the immediate aftermath of the outbreak, as countries around the world grappled with the economic fallout, the volume's 15 contributions from leading researchers and junior scholars draw on the rich debates of the 2019 Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association on the Future of Work held at the University of Neuchâtel in the fall of 2019. The chapters, divided into five sections, cover issues ranging from the (sometimes unexpected) impacts of digital technologies and globalization to the experience of marginalized workers (in both the Global North and South) and the future of academia. Their critical insights into the historical dynamics and lived experiences behind the transformation of work provide a framework to understand the fate of workers and occupations in these unsettling times.

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Christian Suter is professor of sociology at the Universityof Neuchâtel, Switzerland. His research has focused on social and economic inequalities, social indicators and quality of life, as well as on globalization and world society. His most recent book is Wealth(s) and Well-being (Springer). Jacinto Cuvi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He studies the socioeconomic causes and the politics of informal labor. Philip Balsiger is an assistant professor of economic sociology at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. In his work he is interested in sociological approaches to markets, with a particular attention on contentious processes. His latest article, The Dynamics of Moralized Markets was published in Socio-Economic Review. Mihaela Nedelcu is titular professor at the Institute of Sociology and project leader in the nccr-on the move at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Her research analyses the social impact of digital technologies and the transnationalization of social life, with a focus on e-diasporas, e-borders, and transnational ageing.