Labour Struggles in Digital Capitalism: Challenges and Opportunities for Worker Organisation, Mobilisation, and Activism in Germany

In this article, we investigate labour struggles under the condition of digital capitalism. The main research question paper addresses is: How do German unions evaluate and respond to rapidly accelerating digitalisation economy work? Based on a series interviews with union representatives in Germany, trace recent developments an increasingly digitised outline challenges opportunities for unions. Our findings show that large-scale deployment technologies fragments workforce, reduces social standards, worsens working conditions, exacerbates power imbalances detriment employed. These disadvantages are only insufficiently met new raise public awareness connect mobilise workers by means communication technologies. study suggests growing significance technological expertise unions, need meet global capital enhanced international regional cooperation among organisations, importance uniting established grassroots workers’ movements shared improve situation technology-enhanced conditions globalised exploitation control.