Prelims
Algorithms, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency: Implications for the Future of the Workplace
ISBN: 978-1-83867-498-4, eISBN: 978-1-83867-495-3
Publication date: 20 January 2020
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Brown, G. and Whittle, R. (2020), "Prelims", Algorithms, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency: Implications for the Future of the Workplace (The Future of Work), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-ix. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83867-495-320201001
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Algorithms, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency
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The Future of Work
The future of work is a vital contemporary area of debate both in business and management research, but also in wider social, political and economic discourse. Global relevant issues, including the ageing workforce, rise of the gig economy, workplace automation and changing forms of business ownership are all regularly the subject of discussion in both academic research and the mainstream media, with wider professional and public policy implications.
The Future of Work series features books examining key issues or challenges in the modern workplace, synthesising prior developments in critical thinking, alongside current practical challenges in order to interrogate possible future developments in the world of work.
Offering future research agendas and suggesting practical outcomes for today’s and tomorrow’s businesses and workforce, the books in this series present powerful, challenging and polemical analysis of a diverse range of subjects in their potential to address future challenges and possible new trajectories.
The series highlights what changes still need to be made to core areas of business practice and theory in order for them to be forward facing, more representative, and able to fulfil the industrial challenges of the future.
Other Titles in the Series
Careers: Thinking, Strategising and Prototyping
Ann M. Brewer
Forthcoming Titles
Workforce Health and Productivity
Stephen Bevan and Cary L. Cooper
Spending Without Thinking: The Future of Consumption
Richard Whittle
Personnel Selection: Finding the Future of Talent Through Science and Technology
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Franziska Leutner and Reece Akhtar
Cooperatives at Work
George Cheney, Matt Noyes and Emi Do
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Algorithms, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency
Implications for the Future of the Workplace
Gavin Brown
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
and
Richard Whittle
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China
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GB – To Fe, Laurie, Elliott, Jules and Bryony
RW – To Jen and Nina
Contents
List of Tables and Figures | ix |
Introduction | 1 |
1. Now I Know My ABC (Algorithms, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency) | 9 |
2. Internet Killed the Video Store: Lessons from History Repeated in the Blockchain World? | 35 |
3. Job 1/Job 2/Job 3 … Job n | 63 |
4. The Future of Work: The Emergence of the Bitworker | 107 |
5. Profit and Power in the Bitworker World | 123 |
6. Managing the Bitworker Economy | 145 |
7. Conclusion, Recommendations and Survival Guide | 163 |
References | 181 |
Index | 185 |
List of Tables and Figures
Chapter 3 | |
Table 1. Themes of Microtasks. | 64 |
Chapter 1 | |
Fig. 1. The ABC and the Economy it Generates. | 32 |
Chapter 5 | |
Fig. 2. The Evolution of Money Over Time. | 141 |
- Prelims
- Introduction
- 1: Now I Know My ABC (Algorithms, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency)
- 2: Internet Killed the Video Store: Lessons from History Repeated in the Blockchain World?
- 3: Job 1/Job 2/Job 3 … Job n
- 4: The Future of Work: The Emergence of the Bitworker
- 5: Profit and Power in the Bitworker World
- 6: Managing the Bitworker Economy
- 7: Conclusion, Recommendations and Survival Guide
- References
- Index