Contributing to recent debate on the emergence of digital and agile work, this book explores the implications for labour and employment relations within and beyond organizational boundaries.  Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the key issues and challenges of digitalization, this collection covers topics such as the gig economy, crowdworking and Industry 4.0. Theory and analysis are combined as the authors examine the impact of digital and smart work on organization, HRM and labour law. With comprehensive empirical evidence for those interested in understanding the more complex trajectories of today's transforming work relationships, this book will  not only appeal to students and academics but also to policy-makers, trade unionists and employers' organizations.

1. Introduction; Olga Rymkevich, Iacopo Senatori

Part I. The Challenges of Digitalization for Employment Relations
2. Protecting Work in the Digital Transformation: Rethinking the Typological Approach in the Intrinsically Triangular Relationship Perspective; Edoardo Ales
3. Digital Work: An Organizational Perspective; Tommaso Fabbri
4. Connecting Machines, (Re)connecting Workers:  An Economic  Perspective on Digitalization of Employment Relations; Giovanni Solinas, Sergio Paba
Part II. Work in the Gig Economy
5. A Fair Wage for Workers On-Demand via App; Emanuele Menegatti
6. Assessment by Feedback in the On-Demand Era; Alessandra Ingrao.7. The Classification of Crowdwork and Work by Platforms: Alternatives and Implications; Gionata Cavallini
Part III. Industrial Relations Strategies in Industry 4.0
8. Organizing and Collective Bargaining in the Digitized "Tertiary Factories" of Amazon: A Comparison BetweenGermany and Italy; Bruno Cattero, Marta D'Onofrio
9. Evolution of Trade Unions in Industry 4.0: A German and Italian Debate; Matteo Avogaro
Part IV. The Impact of Digitalization on Work Performance
10. DigitAgile: The Office in a Mobile Device. Threats and Opportunities for Workers and Companies; Roberto Albano, Sonia Bertolini, Tania Parisi, Ylenia Curzi, Tommaso Fabbri
11. "Always-On" - The Collapse of the Work-life-separation: Recent Developments, Deficits and Counter-strategies; Ruediger Krause
12. Into Smart Work Practices: Challenges for HR Departments; Daria Sarti, Teresina Torre
13. Conclusion; Edoardo Ales, Ylenia Curzi.