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Sharing as a postwork style: digital work and the co-working office

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  • Lizzie Richardson

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Evocations of the ‘sharing economy’ claim disruptions through digital technology. Style is put forward to focus on subtle changes to the form and content of work through digital sharing. Digital sharing is a postwork style with ambiguous implications for worker identity and expression. Digital technologies share work through distributing the workplace beyond a fixed location and by enrolling individuals as workers through processes of communication circulation. These styles of sharing challenge fixed spaces and times of work with utopian and dystopian postwork possibilities. This argument is supported through practices of shared digital work constituting co-working offices in Manchester, Cambridge and London.

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  • Lizzie Richardson, 2017. "Sharing as a postwork style: digital work and the co-working office," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 10(2), pages 297-310.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cjrecs:v:10:y:2017:i:2:p:297-310.
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    1. Yi, Ming & Liu, Yafen & Sheng, Mingyue Selena & Wen, Le, 2022. "Effects of digital economy on carbon emission reduction: New evidence from China," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).
    2. Massimiliano Tabusi, 2021. "Plusvalore geografico, (cyber)spazio e lavoro," ECONOMIA E SOCIET? REGIONALE, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 0(1), pages 13-29.
    3. Jennifer Johns & Sarah Marie Hall, 2020. "‘I have so little time […] I got shit I need to do’: Critical perspectives on making and sharing in Manchester’s FabLab," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 52(7), pages 1292-1312, October.
    4. Colin Lorne, 2020. "The limits to openness: Co-working, design and social innovation in the neoliberal city," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 52(4), pages 747-765, June.

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    Keywords

    sharing; digital work; co-working; postwork; style;
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    JEL classification:

    • J - Labor and Demographic Economics
    • O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth
    • R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics

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