Virtual Workers and the Global Labour Market

Part I: Who are virtual workers?.- 1. Positioning virtual workers within space, time and social dynamics; Juliet Webster and Keith RandlePart II Virtual occupations, work processes and preparation for the virtual labour market.- 2. Engineering lifestyles: career choices in late modernity; Jörg Müller.- 3. Young entrepreneurs and creative collectives: Greek new media workers in constant crisis; Martha Michailidou and Eleni Kostala.- 4.Virtual innovation work: labour, creativity and standardisation; Sabine Pfeiffer, Daniela Wühr and Petra Schutt.- 5. It's on the cards: emerging employment relationships in online poker; Kaire Holts and Romina Surugiu.- 6. Recruitment, work and identity in community management: passion, precarity and play; Aphra Kerr.- Part III The conditions and experiences of virtual work.- 7. Rhythms of creativity and power in freelance creative work; Frederick H. Pitts.- 8. Towards more insecurity? Virtual work and the sustainability of creative labour; Jaka Primorac.- 9. The fragile professional identities of digital journalists in Romania; Romina Surugiu.- 10. Presence and absence in virtual team meetings: physical, virtual and social dimensions; Anu Sivunen.- 11. The presentation of self in a virtual world: working in Second Life; Stine Bengtsson.- 12. Cyberbullying at work: experiences of Indian employees; Premilla D'Cruz