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Freelance economy in the context of Industry 5.0: Challenges and prospects [PDF]

open access: yesProblems and Perspectives in Management
Type of the article: Research Article AbstractThe freelance economy opens new ways for direct interaction between freelancers and customers without intermediaries.
Leonid Melnyk   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Entrepreneurship vs. Freelancing: What’s the Difference?

open access: yesNaše Gospodarstvo, 2020
The development of Internet technology (IT) at the end of the 20th century and its integration into the business sector has led to the emergence of digital labour platforms that provoke a reorganization of work arrangements by matching the demand and ...
Huđek Ivona   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Solent Capital Compass Model of Employability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This four page presentation holds the current Solent Capital Compass Model used for embedding employability in our curriculum, along with simple definitions aimed at students.
Jones, Rosy, Sant, Richard
core  

Co-working communities: Sustainability citizenship at work [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The aim of this chapter is to explore coworking as an alternative form of citizen-based organisation in shared member-based spaces, which enable peer-to-peer interactions that engender camaraderie and a collective sense of achievement that enhances ...
Butcher, Tim
core   +1 more source

Views of Vidigal: negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro Favela avec vue : négocier opportunités et risques dans un quartier en voie de gentrification à Rio de Janeiro

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
wiley   +1 more source

The Brighton Fuse 2. Freelancers in the creative digital IT economy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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Camerani, Roberto   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior literature on gender and wealth accumulation largely examines the role of families in reproducing inequalities. However, less attention has been paid to families without sons, a significant demographic, particularly within China's one‐child generation, that challenges conventional understandings of familial wealth dynamics.
Ye Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Unstable employment and health in middle age in the longitudinal 1970 British Birth Cohort Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Background and objectives: Jobs for life have become increasingly rare in industrialized economies, and have been replaced by shorter-term employment contracts and freelancing.
Waynforth, David
core   +1 more source

Gender and Anticipatory Labour in the Gig Economy: How Employability Is Unequally Performed by Women and Men on Project‐Based Platforms

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Work mediated by digital labour platforms is often framed as flexible and autonomous, yet accessing paid tasks commonly requires extensive unpaid effort. Drawing on 65 qualitative interviews with Australian workers on project‐based platforms (including Airtasker, Fiverr and Freelancer), we develop the concept of anticipatory labour: the unpaid,
Brendan Churchill   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crowd-sourcing (who, why and what) [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Crowd Science, 2018
Purpose - There is growing interest in innovative online problem-solving models such as crowdsourcing to serve individuals, firms and the society as a whole.
Henry Oluchukwu Ikediego   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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