Space, Place and Global Digital Work

1. Introduction
Jörg Flecker

Part I. Delocalisation of Digital Work

2. The Production of ‘Placelessness’: Digital Service Work in Global Value Chains
Jörg Flecker, Annika Schönauer

3. New Topologies of Work: Informatisation, Virtualisation and Globalisation in Automotive Engineering
Mascha Will-Zocholl

4. Algorithms that Divide and Unite: Delocalisation, Identity and Collective Action in ‘Microwork’
Vili Lehdonvirta

Part II. The Changing International Division of Labour and Regional Development

5. ‘Clouds’ in the Desert? Central and Eastern Europe and Ukraine in the New Division of Labour for Business Services and Software Development
Jane Hardy, Graham Hollinshead

6. Missing Links in Service Value Chain Analysis—Space, Identity and Inequality in Brazilian Call Centres
Martina Sproll

7. Local Development Policies, the Labour Market and the Dynamics of Virtual Value Chains: the Case of the IT Sector in the Municipality of Londrina, Brazil
Simone Wolff

8. Creating Space: The Role of the State in the Indian IT-Related Offshoring Sector
Ernesto Noronha, Premilla D’Cruz

Part III. Dynamics of Virtual Organisation and Mediatised Work

9. ‘My Company is Invisible’—Generating Trust in the Context of Placelessness, Precarity and Invisibility in Virtual Work
Nora C. Koslowski

10. Towards a Model of Collective Competences for Globally Distributed Collaborations
Thomas Ryser, Elisabeth Angerer, Mangadu Paramasivam Ganesh, Hartmut Schulze

11. Spatial Phenomena of Mediatised Work
Caroline Roth-Ebner

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology, general, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality