Robotics and Work: Between Fiction and Reality
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Donata Gottardi
Donata Gottardi is Full Professor of Labour Law at the University of Verona. She was Dean of the Law Department till 2018. She was Member of the European Parliament from 2006 to 2009. Her fields of research include antidiscrimination law, equality and women’s right, European law and industrial relations. She was the coordinator of the project “Close the Deal, Fill the Gap,” concerning the GPG, funded by the European Commission under the Progress Program. Among her most recent publications
La conciliazione delle esigenze di cura, di vita e di lavoro (Torino: Giappichelli, 2016) on the Italian legislation on work-life balance.
Abstract
This paper focusses on the spreading of robotics, starting from a Resolution of the European Parliament of 2017. Legal scholarship seems to have developed an attraction for digitalisation, which implies the development of smart working and platform work governed by algorithms. The pervading impact of robotics seems to imply fewer divergences from the traditional structure of Labour Law in terms of institutions and legal categories. However, it could determine even more radical changes, possibly approaching scenarios explored so far only by science fiction.
About the author
Donata Gottardi is Full Professor of Labour Law at the University of Verona. She was Dean of the Law Department till 2018. She was Member of the European Parliament from 2006 to 2009. Her fields of research include antidiscrimination law, equality and women’s right, European law and industrial relations. She was the coordinator of the project “Close the Deal, Fill the Gap,” concerning the GPG, funded by the European Commission under the Progress Program. Among her most recent publications La conciliazione delle esigenze di cura, di vita e di lavoro (Torino: Giappichelli, 2016) on the Italian legislation on work-life balance.
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- Frontmatter
- Focus: Legal Perspectives in Victorian Literature
- Legal Perspectives in Victorian Literature
- Charles Dickens and the Rhetoric of Law in David Copperfield
- Gentlemanliness, Status and Law in Anthony Trollope’s Lady Anna
- Infanticide in Adam Bede: Hetty Sorrel and the Language of Justice
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- The Voice of the People in Homer
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