Prelims

Half Title Page

Algorithms, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Series Page

The Future of Work

The future of work is a vital contemporary area of debate both in business and management research, but also in wider social, political and economic discourse. Global relevant issues, including the ageing workforce, rise of the gig economy, workplace automation and changing forms of business ownership are all regularly the subject of discussion in both academic research and the mainstream media, with wider professional and public policy implications.

The Future of Work series features books examining key issues or challenges in the modern workplace, synthesising prior developments in critical thinking, alongside current practical challenges in order to interrogate possible future developments in the world of work.

Offering future research agendas and suggesting practical outcomes for today’s and tomorrow’s businesses and workforce, the books in this series present powerful, challenging and polemical analysis of a diverse range of subjects in their potential to address future challenges and possible new trajectories.

The series highlights what changes still need to be made to core areas of business practice and theory in order for them to be forward facing, more representative, and able to fulfil the industrial challenges of the future.

Other Titles in the Series

Careers: Thinking, Strategising and Prototyping

Ann M. Brewer

Forthcoming Titles

Workforce Health and Productivity

Stephen Bevan and Cary L. Cooper

Spending Without Thinking: The Future of Consumption

Richard Whittle

Personnel Selection: Finding the Future of Talent Through Science and Technology

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Franziska Leutner and Reece Akhtar

Cooperatives at Work

George Cheney, Matt Noyes and Emi Do

Title Page

Algorithms, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Implications for the Future of the Workplace

Gavin Brown

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

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Richard Whittle

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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First edition 2020

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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ISBN: 978-1-83867-498-4 (Print)

ISBN: 978-1-83867-495-3 (Online)

ISBN: 978-1-83867-497-7 (Epub)

Dedication Page

GB – To Fe, Laurie, Elliott, Jules and Bryony

RW – To Jen and Nina

Contents

List of Tables and Figures