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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction; Jörg Flecker.- Part 1. Delocalisation of digital work.- 1. The production of ‘placelessness’: digital service work in global value chains; Jörg Flecker and Annika Schönauer.- 2. New topologies of engineering work: informatisation, virtualisation and globalisation in the automotive industry; Mascha Will-Zocholl.- 3. Algorithms that divide and unite: Delocalisation, identity, and collective action in ‘microwork’; Vili Lehdonvirta.- Part 2. The changing international division of labour and regional development.- 4. ‘Clouds’ in the desert? Central and Eastern Europe in the new division of labour for business services and software development; Graham Hollinshead and Jane Hardy.- 5. Missing Links in Service Value Chain Analysis – The Case of Call Centers in the Brazilian Banking Sector; Martina Sproll.- 6. Local development policies and labour market in the dynamics of virtual value chains: the case of IT Sector in the municipality of Londrina (Paraná, Brazil); Simone Wolff.- 7. Creating space: The role of the State in the Indian IT related offshoring sector; Ernesto Noronha and Premilla D’Cruz.- Part 3. Dynamics of virtual organisations and mediatised work.- 8. ‘My company’s invisible’ – Creating trust and belonging amongst the transient places and spaces of virtual work; Nora Koslowski.- 9. Towards a model of collective competencies for global and virtual collaboration; Thomas Ryser, Elisabeth Angerer and Hartmut Schulze.- 10. Spatial phenomena of mediatised work; Caroline Roth-Ebner.
