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New Technology Work & Employment @ntwejournal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Do you have expertise in the sociology of work & expertise in technology (broadly defined)? Would you like to become and Associate Editor of New Technology, Work and Employment? We are seeking new Associate Editors at the journal, full details here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

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New Technology, Work and Employment is inviting applications for the roles of Associate Editor

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

In an unexpected piece of news, I was surprised by an e-mail from @wiley.com informing me that my article "Platform couriers' self-exploitation: The case study of Glovo" was among top-10 most cited articles published in 2023 in New Technology Work and Employment (@ntwejournal.bsky.social).

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Charles Umney @charlesumney.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Many congratulations to @abbiewinton.bsky.social for this outstanding new paper in @ntwejournal.bsky.social! Essential reading for understanding technological adoption in retail workplaces, with a lot of additional insight into the implications of covid 🚨🚨👇👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Sociotechnical Change in British Supermarkets: Examining the Role of Labour

Lead author Abbie Winton

When predicting the future of retail work, commentators tend to focus on automation and labour replacement and neglect the continued role played by labour, particularly in food retail. To understand this role, this article draws on both interview and newspaper data to show how change unfolded in the sector from before to just after the Coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, it shows how increased technology adoption and use in food retail occurred alongside an increased reliance on labour. The availability of a flexible labour pool that was easy to scale and later disband enabled employers to respond to increased consumer demand rapidly. In contrast to futurist predictions of the proliferation of labour-replacing technologies, the analysis shows how food retailers continued to prioritise short-term solutions contingent on human labour rather than investments in longer-term automation programmes, reflecting historical patterns of sociotechnical change within the sector.

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New Technology Work & Employment @ntwejournal.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The "Disrupting Technology" conference calls for abstracts of careful, empirically grounded, theorisations of technology & its impact on work and employment relations. Asking what is genuinely novel about digital innovations & should be excellent & of interest to readers & authors of NTWE.

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New Technology Work & Employment @ntwejournal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

*New paper* "‘Gig’ Work and Fatherhood: A Typology of Ride-Share Fathers in Australia" Lisa Gulesserian, Alex Veen & Marian Baird develop a typology to examine what motivates fathers with dependent children to work in the gig economy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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‘Gig’ Work and Fatherhood: A Typology of Ride‐Share Fathers in Australia

This paper examines what motivates fathers with dependent children to work in the gig economy and to what extent care considerations influence their decisions to perform this work. Integrating the li...

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New Technology Work & Employment @ntwejournal.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Special Issue deadline approaching: "Reshaping work: Disabled people’s inclusion & digitalization in the new world of work" Exploring how digitalization, AI, & machine learning affect job search, hiring processes & working life for disabled people: tinyurl.com/5n7znjzx Deadline: 31 January 2025

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Tiago Vieira @t-vieira.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

A few years back I made an in-depth study of this platform work, how they justified resorting to independent contractors and how that impacted workers livelihood published in @ntwejournal.bsky.social Will be interesting to follow how things will change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Platform couriers' self‐exploitation: The case study of Glovo

This article examines the phenomenon of self-exploitation among platform couriers, using the company Glovo as a case study. The research, based on a qualitative approach with interviews from 22 diffe...

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New Technology Work & Employment @ntwejournal.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

"The HIAL storm: Resisting the technological transformation of air traffic control". In this newly published article, @huwthomas.bsky.social & Peter Turnbull demonstrate how different power resources can complement, but also compromise workers' interests. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The HIAL storm: Resisting the technological transformation of air traffic control

Whether and under what conditions the implementation of technology can be resisted hinges on how labour can mobilise structural, associational, institutional, coalitional and ideational power resourc...

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New Technology Work & Employment @ntwejournal.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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