Digital Transitions and Innovation in Construction Value Chains

Industrial Relations and Equitable Socio-technical Change

小威森Rugiero编辑ior Researcher, Energy, Development and Innovation Research Area, Fondazione Di Vittorio and Daniele Di Nunzio, Research Area Manager, Fondazione Di Vittorio, Italy

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This timely book provides an innovative study of the profound changes and latest challenges facing the construction sector. It adopts a socio-technical approach to analyse not only the role of technological factors, but also that of actors and their social dialogue and industrial relations.

‘At last, a book that carefully considers both the potential dangers of digitalisation as well as the benefits for the construction workforce, including through improved work organisation and qualifications, if social partners - and especially the unions - across Europe, play a key role in its implementation, control and monitoring. This should be essential reading for all those concerned with innovation, industrial relations, and achieving an equitable society.’
– Linda Clarke, University of Westminster, UK

‘The construction sector finds itself at the epicentre of both the digital and the green transition but has been much less researched than the manufacturing sector. Filling this gap, this book provides a comparative analysis across the value chain with a systemic vision of change that lays down a framework for a just socio-technical transition towards digitalisation.’
– Bela Galgoczi, European Trade Union Institute, Belgium