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Marja
Rautajoki
Coordinator, Turku Centre for Labour Studies (TCLS)
Doctoral Researcher, Digital Language Studies, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Doctoral Researcher, MA, BBA

Contact

+358 29 450 4042
+358 50 412 4451

Areas of expertise

coordination
project coordination
working life research
working life education
working life research seminars
WORK conferences
linguistics
discourses
discourse research
content analysis
text analysis
German language
platform economy
platform work

Biography

I work as a coordinator at TCLS Turku Centre for Labour Studies. My responsibilities include coordinating educational, research and societal interaction matters. I am also in charge of all general administrative and communiucational tasks of the unit. I also take part in coordinating, planning and teaching in Multidisciplinary Studies in Work, Working life and HR Research (TYHE).

I am doing my doctoral studies in doctoral programme of language and translation studies Utuling in the department of German.  

Teaching

I am a person in charge in the following TYHE-courses:

  • TYHE0 Orientation to TYHE-studies, 1 ECTS
  • TYHE1 Work in a Digital World, 3 ECTS
  • TYHE3 Introduction to Issues of Working Life, 3 ECTS
  • TYHE5 Current Themes in Working Life Studies, 1-3 ECTS 
  • TYHE13 From Factories to Algorithms, 3 ECTS

Research

In my doctoral thesis, I study the discussion on platform work, its status and the meanings it receives from the perspective of different actors and influencers in the EU's economic and cultural area. As data I use online newspaper article, interviews, publications of International Labour Organization ILO and websites and other public profiles of platforms that intermediate work. 

The goal of my dissertation is to compile a multi-voiced image of platform work and discussion on it.  

Publications

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