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From Learners to Earners: The Role of Education in Shaping Online Freelancers within the Gig Economy
Ianna Journal of Interdisciplinary StudiesBackground: In developing nations, education systems prioritise employability over broader academic goals, often overlooking the preparation needed for freelance platforms.
Lihini Niranjana Dasanayaka +5 more
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Journal of Extreme AnthropologyThe gig economy is a rapidly growing global labour paradigm involving casualised labour across sectors as varied as transportation, freelancing, domestic help, programming and vacation rentals.
Deepak P
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Representativeness of the European Social Partner Organisations: Textiles and Clothing Sector [PDF]
, 2013 This study provides information designed to aid sectoral social dialogue in the textile and clothing sector. The study is divided into three parts: a summary of the sector’s economic background; an analysis of the social partner organisations in all the ...
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Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms are not necessarily geographically static, in fact, they sometimes move across space within an economy. We define three possible destination types for relocating firms: major cities (urbanization), urbanized districts (suburbanization), and rural districts (counterurbanization).
Benedikt Schröpf, Tim Kovalenko
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History and growth of the food trailer scene of Austin, Texas [PDF]
, 2012 textWhat began as small taco carts on South Lamar and catering trucks at construction sites in Austin, Texas, local entrepreneurs have recently taken the idea of mobile food and expanded it into a regional phenomenon. This report focuses on the range of
O'Brian, Brenda Gail
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Regulating critical technologies: National security and intellectual property
The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.Abstract In recent years, claims of ‘national security’ have surged internationally to protect various security interests including public health, economic security and cybersecurity. National industrial strategies for building critical technologies challenge the scope of ‘national security’ in international intellectual property (IP) protection ...
Phoebe Li, Atilla Kasap
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New 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
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New 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
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Bias for Action Leadership Category [PDF]
Leaders in the wildland fire service are not only empowered but also duty-bound to act on a situation that is within our power to affect, even without direction from above. This empowerment is not intended to encourage freelancing.
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