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Sharing as a postwork style: digital work and the co-working office

Richardson, L.

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L. Richardson



Abstract

Evocations of the ‘sharing economy’ claim disruptions through digital technology. Style is put forward to focus on subtle changes to the form and content of work through digital sharing. Digital sharing is a postwork style with ambiguous implications for worker identity and expression. Digital technologies share work through distributing the workplace beyond a fixed location and by enrolling individuals as workers through processes of communication circulation. These styles of sharing challenge fixed spaces and times of work with utopian and dystopian postwork possibilities. This argument is supported through practices of shared digital work constituting co-working offices in Manchester, Cambridge and London.

Citation

Richardson, L. (2017). Sharing as a postwork style: digital work and the co-working office. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 10(2), 297-310. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsx002

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 9, 2017
Online Publication Date Feb 14, 2017
Publication Date Feb 14, 2017
Deposit Date Dec 12, 2016
Publicly Available Date Feb 14, 2019
Journal Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
Print ISSN 1752-1378
Electronic ISSN 1752-1386
Publisher Cambridge Political Economy Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 10
Issue 2
Pages 297-310
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsx002
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1397621

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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Cambridge journal of regions, economy and society following peer review. The version of record Richardson, L. (2017). Sharing as a postwork style: digital work and the co-working office. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsx002.






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