Tom Boland
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Tom Boland’s research sits at the critical intersection of digital governance, labour market transformation, and social welfare, with a particular focus on how algorithmic systems are reshaping state power. His most-cited work, “Electric Dreams of Welfare in the 4th Industrial Revolution” (2019), offers a groundbreaking actor-network and genealogical analysis of how digital interventions are re-constituting the administration of the labour market, rendering the social safety-net ever more precarious. Boland argues that not just work, but welfare itself is becoming precariatised through new forms of governmentality, challenging utopian narratives of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. His contributions have been influential in critical policy studies and science and technology studies, with his work cited in debates on algorithmic governance and social protection. Boland’s scholarship provides essential tools for understanding how digital technologies are fundamentally altering the relationship between citizens and the state, making his research vital reading for students and scholars concerned with the future of work, welfare, and democratic accountability in an age of automation.
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