Dr Jamie Woodcock

LSE Fellow

Employment Relations and Human Resource Management Faculty Group

Biography

Dr Woodcock's current research focuses on the digital economy, the transformation of work, and eSports. He has previously worked as a postdoc on a research project about video games, as well as another investigating the crowdsourcing of citizen science. Jamie completed his PhD in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London and has held positions at Goldsmiths, the University of Leeds, the University of Manchester, Queen Mary, NYU London, and Cass Business School.

Research interests

Digital labour
Resistance
Technology
Videogames & eSports
Management
Critical Theory
Sociology of work

Recent publications

Digital labour: between autonomy and automation
Woodcock, Jamie (2017) Digital labour: between autonomy and automation. Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation, 11 (1). ISSN 1745-641X (In Press)
Working the phones: control and resistance in call centres
Woodcock, Jamie (2016) Working the phones: control and resistance in call centres. Pluto Press, London, UK. ISBN 9780745399089 (In Press)
The work of play: Marx and the video games industry in the United Kingdom
Woodcock, Jamie (2016) The work of play: Marx and the video games industry in the United Kingdom. Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, 8 (2). pp. 131-143. ISSN 1757-191X
Changes in employment: role of the state and its reconfiguration in the liberalization of employment policies
Woodcock, Jamie (2016) Changes in employment: role of the state and its reconfiguration in the liberalization of employment policies. In: Fedyuk, O. , (ed.) Inclusion, Exclusion and Precarious Employment in Europe: the Story So Far from the UK, Belgium, France and Poland. Marie Curie Changing Employment, Glasgow, UK. (In Press)
Crowdsourcing citizen science: exploring the tensions between paid professionals and users
Woodcock, J. and Greenhill, A. (2016) Crowdsourcing citizen science: exploring the tensions between paid professionals and users. The Journal of Peer Production . ISSN 2213-5316 (In Press)

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