The Workerant

In the unfolding drama of work in the digital age, new circumstance demands new language. Gig economy, on-demand work, the sharing economy, precarious work, automation, zero-hour contracts, outsourcing, workfare. Whilst the entire stage set changes, the central character of the drama remains. The worker. If this indicates both a resilience yet a revisionism of the worker today, there is the need to probe the worker subject of the new economies through new ones. Thus here is the workerant.