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The “digital revolution” and the way it im-pacts work are receiving increasing atten-tion, but this attention remains mainly con-centrated in countries of the Global North. Yet, these developments also concern coun-tries in the Global South, but with particular modalities that require specific analyses and reactions.
The digitalization of work and its consequences for the Global South
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