approaches to the relation of technology and work. The session on "Technology and Work: New Sociological Approaches?" provided …From 15-21 July 2018, the World Congress of Sociology, organized by the International Sociological Association (ISA …

Association of Studies on Science and Technology-EASST) chose the conference theme “Design and Displacement”. …

members of the Network work with the innovators to help their ideas reach their commercial or non-commercial potential. The … Network has been involved in the sharing of grassroots technology developed in India with Kenya, notably a food processing … of the dynamism of the informal sector. Lessons from the Network’s experience in Kenya and its technology transfer …

surveillance and control because they generate data on the work process and sometimes even on movement patterns and vital data of … the employees. Wearables technology is at an early stage of development, in which the interests and perspectives of … relevant stakeholders, especially technology developers and the management, are of particular importance. This article explores …

border of science fiction—and this is not a bad thing. Diverse strands of media studies and science and technology studies … science and (media) technology is deeply interwoven in social imaginaries about possible outcomes and their implicated futures … which human societies—and economies—work. Obviously a gigantic research field opens up—so in the proposed paper, only one …

implications of these patterns, I build a quantitative model of the labor market with endogenous technology and training …

). We focus on over 70 empirical studies that have used direct measures of technology (rather than associating technology … and measurement. Our survey comes to the following tentative conclusions: (i) there is a strong effect of technology on …

between labor of different skills (tasks) on the one hand, and technology as well as outsourcing on the other. Our findings …

heterogenous firms and search-and-matching frictions in the labour market. By considering different sectors and factors of … production we allow for comparative advantages and study the trade and technology effects within and between sectors on wages and … consequences across the labour force, favouring the skilled against the low-skilled workers. Intra-sectoral trade counteracts as it …