The Future of Work in the United States: Discourses on Automation and the Platform Economy
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This book presents and analyzes how restructuring processes due to technological change are reflected and processed in political and public discourses in the United States in the most recent past. More specifically, this work examines how the themes of automation, digitization, and the platform economy and their impact on the future of work are reflected in public discourse through the analysis of journalistic articles, and political discourse through the analysis of congressional hearings. Public and political discourses, as well as economic narratives, shape our understanding of certain developments such as technological change, our behavior more generally, and societal support of said developments. Therefore, it is vital to investigate and analyze these discourses in order to show how technological change is perceived and evaluated today. This work draws from concepts and methods of several different disciplines, most notably using a combination of corpus-linguistic methods and exemplary textual analysis. This way, this work stands as truly interdisciplinary, with a unique approach to the quantitative and qualitative examination of discourses. Acknowledgments Contents About the Author List of Figures List of Tables Chapter 1: Introduction: Focus, Scope, and Structure of the Book References Chapter 2: The Network Society, the Internet, and the Beginning of the New Economy 2.1 Employment and Economic Security in the Network Society 2.2 Automation, Digitization, and the Rise of the Platform Economy 2.2.1 Automation 2.2.2 Digitization 2.2.3 The Rise of the Platform Economy 2.2.4 Inequality in the Digital Age 2.2.4.1 The Origins and State of Income Inequality in the USA 2.2.4.2 Technology and the Polarization of the Labor Market 2.2.4.3 New Work Arrangements References Chapter 3: A New World of Work: The Sharing Economy Platforms 3.1 Sharing, Gig, On-Demand: Crucial Definitions 3.2 The Sharing Economy Platforms 3.2.1 Users and Providers of the Sharing Economy Platforms 3.2.2 Sharing Economy Platforms: An Ambiguous Trend 3.3 The Platform Economy and Labor 3.3.1 The Example of Uber 3.3.2 The Future of Work: Platform Work 3.3.3 Platforms: Labor Reform and Regulation 3.3.4 A Future Without Work? The Universal Basic Income 3.3.5 Present and Future of the Platform Economy in the World of Work References Chapter 4: Corpus Analysis: Automation, the Future of Work, and the Platform Economy Reflected in Political and Public Discour... 4.1 Political and Public Discourse as Source Material 4.2 Corpus Linguistics as Method 4.3 Methodology: The Corpora on Congressional Hearings and Media Sources 4.3.1 Compiling the Data 4.3.2 Identifying Keywords 4.4 A First Glance at the Congressional Material 4.4.1 Impressions from the Congressional Hearings 4.4.2 Suggested Policies in Context of the Future of Work References Chapter 5: Quantitative Analysis: Frequency Analysis 5.1 Future Trends 5.2 Platform Economy 5.3 Technology 5.4 Policies 5.5 Inequality References Chapter 6: Qualitative Analysis: Collocations and Contextual Reading 6.1 Digitization and Automation 6.1.1 Digitization in the Congressional Material 6.1.2 Digitization in the Liberal Media Material 6.1.3 Digitization in the WSJ Material 6.1.4 Automation in the Congressional Material 6.1.5 Automation in the Liberal Media Material 6.1.6 Automation in the WSJ Material 6.1.7 Digitization and Automation in Political and Public Discourse 6.2 Future of Work 6.2.1 Future of Work in the Congressional Material 6.2.2 Future of Work in the Liberal Media Material 6.2.3 Future of Work in the WSJ Material 6.2.4 Future of Work in Political and Public Discourse 6.3 Platform Economy 6.3.1 Platform Economy in the Congressional Material 6.3.1.1 Sharing Economy in the Senate Data 6.3.1.2 Sharing Economy in the House Data 6.3.1.3 Gig Economy in the Senate Data 6.3.1.4 Gig Economy in the House Data 6.3.1.5 Platform Economy in the House Data 6.3.1.6 Sharing, Gig, and Platform Economy in the Congressional Data 6.3.2 Platform Economy in the Liberal Media Material 6.3.2.1 Platform Economy in the Liberal Media Data 6.3.2.2 Gig Economy in the Liberal Media Data 6.3.2.3 Sharing Economy in the Liberal Media Data 6.3.2.4 Sharing, Gig, and Platform Economy in the Liberal Media Data 6.3.3 Platform Economy in the WSJ Material 6.3.3.1 Sharing Economy in the WSJ Data 6.3.3.2 Gig Economy in the WSJ Data 6.3.3.3 Sharing and Gig Economy in the WSJ Data 6.3.4 Platform Economy in Political and Public Discourse References Chapter 7: The Discourse Around Technological Progress and the Future of Work 7.1 Summary of Findings 7.2 Outlook: Discourse on Technological Progress After 2017 7.3 Conclusion: A Difficult Vision for Future Participation in the Face of Disruption References
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