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Freelancing platforms want to become agile channels to attract large corporations

open access: yes, 2020
Firms are embracing freelancing platforms' enterprise packages, with end-to-end support and 'talent clouds', write Alessandro Di Fiore and Fabio ...
Rosati, Fabio, Di Fiore, Alessandro
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An Experimental Autoethnography of Mobile Freelancing

open access: yes, 2017
This piece discusses an experimental ongoing research that began with my experience as an academic freelancer. It focuses on my experience of moving frequently within and between cities under specific work/ life conditions.
Nadia Hakim Fernández
core   +1 more source

Behavioral Factors in Tax Preparer and Tax Compliance Choices

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What tax preparer characteristics are most important to taxpayers in their decision to use a tax preparer, and how does this choice of a tax preparer affect subsequent taxpayer compliance? We use laboratory experiments to examine these questions. We find that individuals in this environment simultaneously choose a preparer and their compliance
James Alm   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Freelancing: A journey towards personal and organisational triumph

open access: yesIIMB Management Review
This study attempts to find the structural relationship between initiated and received work interdependence on resilience at work and personal vision. We found a direct relationship between initiated work interdependence and personal vision, mediating ...
Monica Kunte   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Book review : Debra Osnowitz, freelancing expertise : contract professionals in the new economy.

open access: yes, 2011
Book review : Debra Osnowitz, freelancing expertise : contract professionals in the new ...
Elsa Underhill (13068846)
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“We always heal like this”: Illness management and identity expression in Latin American migrants in Spain

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The following article seeks to explore and analyze the use of lay and traditional medicines among Latin migrants in Spain, and the way in which these forms of treatment are accompanied by identity discourses and collective representations.
Muriel Lamarque
wiley   +1 more source

Outsourcing Domestic Work in the Crisis of Social Reproduction: Platform‐Mediated Cleaning and the Role of Clients

open access: yesNew Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid the crisis of social reproduction, outsourcing domestic work has become increasingly appealing, with labour platforms offering new avenues to do so. This article explores the largely overlooked perspective of clients using platform‐mediated cleaning services, focusing on Helpling in Germany.
Stefanie Gerold   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Learners to Earners: The Role of Education in Shaping Online Freelancers within the Gig Economy

open access: yesIanna Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Background: In developing nations, education systems prioritise employability over broader academic goals, often overlooking the preparation needed for freelance platforms.
Lihini Niranjana Dasanayaka   +5 more
doaj  

Digitalizing Newspaper Journalism: Instituting and Negotiating New Temporalities in the Digital Workplace

open access: yesNew Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digitalization of the labour process has occasioned the emergence of new temporal orders at work. For newspaper journalists, it has resulted in a radical reorganization of newsrooms and the temporalities of news production, offering a key site for studying this process of temporal reordering.
Xanthe Whittaker
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Online Freelancers' Labour Agency at the Intersection of Platforms, Wider Labour Markets, and Households: Evidence From the Philippines

open access: yesNew Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on the labour agency of remote‐based online freelancers has often struggled to account for the interplay between platform dynamics, broader labour market conditions, and gendered household responsibilities. This article addresses this gap by proposing an integrated analytical framework that synthesises these dimensions to examine how ...
Jorien H. Oprins
wiley   +1 more source

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