This paper explores the impact of digital technologies on the nature and routine intensity of shopfloor work, the ways in which digital technologies exert their effects and the factors moderating the outcomes of digitalisation in respect of work. The effect of technology cannot be limited to a...

In the early transformation years, the incorporation of the transforming economies in the global structure of manufacturing was characterized by a partial geographical separation of production related service activities from production (physical processing activities). Part of the physical...