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Crowdworking als Phaenomen der Koordination digitaler Erwerbsarbeit – Eine interdisziplinaere Perspektive (Crowdworking as the coordination of digital employment – An interdisciplinary perspective)

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  • Hensel, Isabell
  • Koch, Jochen
  • Kocher, Eva
  • Schwarz, Anna

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Die Koordinationsformen von Erwerbsarbeit erfahren durch neue digitale Technologien grundlegende Veraenderungen, die allerdings erst ansatzweise und zumeist nur in einzeldisziplinaerer Perspektive betrachtet, analysiert und verstanden werden. So wird das Phaenomen des Crowdworking oft reduziert auf ein Sourcing- und Steuerungsproblem bzw. auf Prekarisierungsrisiken arbeitender Subjekte oder aber auf neue rechtliche Regulierungsbedarfe vor dem Hintergrund des Ideals eines Normalarbeitsvertrages. In dieser Weise laesst sich – so unsere UEberlegung – das potenziell Neue des Crowdworking kaum adaequat erfassen. In diesem Beitrag entwickeln wir einen komplexeren Begriff des Crowdworking, der organisations-, subjekt- und rechtstheoretische Perspektiven zusammenfuehrt und einen alternativen Analyse- und Deutungsrahmen fuer dieses neue Phaenomen anbietet. Dabei fragen wir nach den Moeglichkeiten und Grenzen wechselseitiger Steigerungsverhaeltnisse von Autonomie, Kontrolle, Flexibilitaet und Stabilitaet in Bezug auf das Verhaeltnis von Organisation, Subjekt und Recht und eroeffnen damit sowohl einen neuen analytischen Zugriff als auch eine normative Sicht auf Crowdworking, indem die Koordinationspraxis von digitalen Crowds als emergente Ordnungsformen in den Mittelpunkt gerueckt wird. (New digital technologies have brought about major changes in the forms of employment coordination. Yet, to date, this shift has been only partially studied and mostly from a single disciplinary perspective. That is why in analyses, the phenomenon of crowd working is often reduced to a sourcing problem for management, a precarity risk for workers or a judicial field in need of new legal regulation (on the basis of the ideal of the conventional labour contract). We argue that this does not enable the innovative character of crowd working to be fully captured. Consequently, in this paper we develop a more complex perspective on crowd working which combines organizational, subject-focused and legal-theoretical analyses. Thereby we focus on the potential reciprocal reinforcement of autonomy, control, flexibility and stability. Furthermore, we introduce both a new analytical and a new normative perspective by putting centre stage the coordination practices of digital crowds as emergent forms of order.)

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  • Hensel, Isabell & Koch, Jochen & Kocher, Eva & Schwarz, Anna, 2016. "Crowdworking als Phaenomen der Koordination digitaler Erwerbsarbeit – Eine interdisziplinaere Perspektive (Crowdworking as the coordination of digital employment – An interdisciplinary perspective)," Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, Organisation und Management - The German Journal of Industrial Relations, Rainer Hampp Verlag, vol. 23(2), pages 162-186.
  • Handle: RePEc:rai:indbez:doi:10.1688/indb-2016-02-hensel
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    Keywords

    digital gainful employment; crowdworking; organisation; law; subject; autonomy; control; flexibility; stability; crowds; crowdsourcing;
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    JEL classification:

    • D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
    • J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
    • J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
    • K20 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - General
    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General

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