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Introduction to Blockchain: Between “Autonomisation” and Automatization, Challenges and Risks for Labour Law

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Taking the cue from a general introduction to “blockchain”, the contribution strives to offer—also through a positive contamination with other spheres of knowledge and through the analysis of some regulatory sources that can be found, both on the Italian side and the European one—a theoretical analysis and a critical reflection on the impact blockchain produces on employment relationship, labour market and regulation, exploring this new disruptive technology as a sort of fertile ground for the experimentation of a new relationship between humanism and technique.

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    Stefano Bini

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  1. Department of Economics Marco Biagi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Tindara Addabbo

  2. University of Naples “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy

    Edoardo Ales

  3. Department of Economics Marco Biagi and Marco Biagi Foundation, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Ylenia Curzi

  4. Department of Economics Marco Biagi and Marco Biagi Foundation, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Tommaso Fabbri

  5. Marco Biagi Foundation, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Olga Rymkevich

  6. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Iacopo Senatori

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Bini, S. (2022). Introduction to Blockchain: Between “Autonomisation” and Automatization, Challenges and Risks for Labour Law. In: Addabbo, T., Ales, E., Curzi, Y., Fabbri, T., Rymkevich, O., Senatori, I. (eds) Defining and Protecting Autonomous Work. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06397-8_7

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