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The EU Commission’s proposal for a Directive on Platform Work: an overview
Italian Labour Law e-Journal, 2022 This article discusses the proposal for the EU Directive on Platform Work. While welcoming the proposal advanced by the Commission, it highlights some of its shortcomings and suggests more robust protection both for the draft Chapter on the presumption ...
Valerio De Stefano
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Disguising Exploitation. Immigrants in the Ecuadorian Gig Economy
Trilogía Ciencia Tecnología Sociedad, 2023 Ecuador is home to approximately 556,000 immigrants, mostly from Venezuela (65%) and Colombia (25%), many of whom have an irregular immigration status.
María Belén Albornoz, Henry Chavez
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Hunger for profit: how food delivery platforms manage couriers in China
Sociologias, 2021 How do food delivery platform firms, such as Meituan (operated by Tencent) and Ele.me (owned by Alibaba), manage couriers through service contracting rather than formal employment? How do couriers experience control and autonomy at work?
Jenny Chan
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Andamiajes y derivas: la mediación algorítmica en la práctica de los riders
EMPIRIA: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales, 2023 Existe un creciente interés en el ámbito de las ciencias sociales por el estudio de fenómenos relacionados con la denominada gig economy o economía de plataformas y, entre ellos, por la figura del rider, un término que alude a los repartidores de ...
Montserrat Cañedo Rodríguez +1 more
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Aprovechando y expandiendo la hiperflexibilización del empleo. El modelo Uber en España
EMPIRIA: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales, 2023 Este artículo describe y analiza las estrategias empleadas para introducir Uber en España. Se emplea el concepto de entramado sociotécnico poniendo de manifiesto la interacción de múltiples factores para lograr la estabilización del modelo.
Víctor Riesgo Gómez
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COPD: algorithms and clinical management [PDF]
European Respiratory Journal, 2017 Can algorithms help the practicing clinician to prescribe the best treatment?
Rosa, Faner, Alvar, Agustí
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Come Together Now! New Technologies and Collective Representation of Platform Workers
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Iuridica, 2021 The purpose of this short discussion paper is to outline the problems faced by collective labour law in face of new forms of work organization such as digital platforms.
Joanna Unterschütz
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The Algorithmic Origins of Life [PDF]
, 2012 Although it has been notoriously difficult to pin down precisely what it is that makes life so distinctive and remarkable, there is general agreement that its informational aspect is one key property, perhaps the key property.
Cairns-Smith AG +20 more
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A literature review of expert problem solving using analogy [PDF]
, 2009 We consider software project cost estimation from a problem solving perspective. Taking a cognitive psychological approach, we argue that the algorithmic basis for CBR tools is not representative of human problem solving and this mismatch could account ...
Mair, C, Martincova, M, Shepperd, MJ
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Genital pain: algorithm for management [PDF]
Translational Andrology and Urology, 2017 Chronic testicular pain although becoming very common in our patient population poses a challenge to the physician, the patient and his family. The pathogenesis of chronic orchialgia (CO) is not well understood. The objective of this paper is to review the current literature on chronic testicular pain and its management and to propose an algorithm for ...
Calixte, Nahomy +2 more
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