publications

Perspectives on new work

Writers

Esko Kilpi

Published

The concepts that govern our thinking and language in relation to work are not just semantics, but influence what we perceive and what we think is possible or not possible. Usually we are not aware of how these ideas prime our thinking. We simply think and act along certain lines.

The narratives of work can be helpful but also outdated and crucially incorrect. As we are passing through a technological discontinuity of huge proportions we need new narratives beyond the models of industrial production and the separatist, mechanistic concepts of a corporation.

Smarter and smarter tools surround us, but if we don’t want to learn the new practices and take up the new roles that the new technologies make possible, they might as well not be there.

This book drafts three new narratives for the predigital era we live in: the algorithmic economy, the platform economy and the interactive economy.

Publication details

Title

Perspectives on new work

Subtitle

Exploring emerging conceptualizations

Authors

Esko Kilpi

Place of publication

Helsinki

Year of publication

2016

Publisher

Sitra

Outlook

128 p.

ISBN (paperback)

978-951-563-965-3

ISBN (PDF)

978-951-563-966-0

ISSN (paperback)

1796-7104

ISSN (PDF)

1796-7112

Subject

WORK; FUTURE; CHANGES IN WORK; WORKING LIFE; DIGITISATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY; ECONOMY; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; BUSINESS; NETWORKS; SOCIETAL CHANGE; INTERNET

Series

Sitra studies

Publication number

114

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