Crowdwork is a new form of work that does not involve a traditional employment relationship or formal affiliation with a corporate organization. This book consists of two focal points. On the one hand, it examines the question of which processes of dissolution of boundaries the reorganization strategy of crowd-sourcing entails - using IBM as a case study. On the other hand, it examines which work-related claims to justice are made by the people working in the virtual world with regard to this new form of work - and thus beyond the standard employment relationship.

Sandra Kawalec, Dipl. Soz., promovierte in Soziologie an der Universität Hohenheim, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Forschungsgruppe Berufe in der Transformation, Forschungsbereich Erwerbslosigkeit und Teilhabe, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg