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Digitalisation has to be considered as a process with a historical dimension. In this chapter, the current changes in workplaces and production environments are therefore discussed from a historical perspective. Understanding modernity as the pivotal point between the early modern and the late modern period, work in a late modern digital environment is consequently contrasted with both modern and premodern forms of work and social life.
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Oggolder, C. (2021). Doing Homework Again: Places of Work from a Historical Perspective. In: Will-Zocholl, M., Roth-Ebner, C. (eds) Topologies of Digital Work. Dynamics of Virtual Work. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80327-8_5
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