The Decent Work Regulation Project reached a new stage in 2019 by focusing on the design and implementation of regulatory frameworks that respond to the datafication of working life.
The focus is on the rapid digitalisation of working life, centred on datatfication, and the challenges and opportunities these trends present for labour regulation. More broadly, we are interested in the role of labour regulation in sustainable development within a context of the digital transformation of working life.
In 2019-2021 we developed new Latin American partnerships through extensive engagement with local stakeholders: government agencies, trade unions, employers’ associations, domestic workers’ organisations, informal work NGOs, and local UN offices.
See Project Partners and our Project Note below.
This paper explores the conceptual framework for the Labour/Data Justice project. It addresses labour datafication – the accelerating quantification of working life encompassing data-use that extracts additional value from workers. The paper proposes a notion of ‘labour/data justice’ to capture both the deterioration of working life at the labour/data nexus and datafied strategies for effective regulation. It examines ‘labour/regulatory datafication,’ focusing on conduits to unacceptable work, and argues that data justice scholarship provides interlinked contributions that are vital to a labour/data justice framework.
The paper is forthcoming in the Journal of Law and Society (2022).
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