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Gig economy: Disruption can bring benefits for workers and consumers [PDF]

, 2017
We should be wary of the narrative that flexible jobs are predominantly low wage and low quality, writes Seamus ...
Nevin, Seamus
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Respect the Hustle: Necessity Entrepreneurship, Returning Citizens, and Social Enterprise Strategies [PDF]

, 2019
This Article will address a pervasive and growing problem for returning citizens—high rates of economic insecurity—and, as a novel solution, propose the creation of Economic Justice Incubators (“EJIs”) as a new, municipally-led social enterprise strategy.
Baskaran, Priya
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Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

Overview of Attempts to Measure The Gig Economy with Considering The Role of Data in Making Managerial Decisions

Foundations of Management
Gig economy, in the 21st century, defined as an economy model based on digital platforms, is a concept that has been present in the economy for at least a dozen years.
ZELMA Emil
doaj   +1 more source

Gig qualifications for the gig economy: micro-credentials and the 'hungry mile'. [PDF]

High Educ (Dordr), 2022
Wheelahan L, Moodie G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Study to gather evidence on the working conditions of platform workers VT/2018/032 Final Report 13 December 2019 [PDF]

, 2019
Platform work is a type of work using an online platform to intermediate between platform workers, who provide services, and paying clients. Platform work seems to be growing in size and importance.
De Groen, Willem Pieter, Giacumacatos, Elisa, Hauben, Harald, Kilhoffer, Zachary, Lenaerts, Karolien, Lhernould, Jean-Philippe, Robin-Olivier, Sophie, Smits, Ine, Waeyaert, Willem   +8 more
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US State Policy Index for Population Health Analyses

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Changes in states’ policy contexts since the 1980s may help explain why mortality rates among working‐age adults have risen and become more unequal across geographic areas. Investigating this pressing issue requires a new, industry‐standard measure of those contexts.
JENNIFER KARAS MONTEZ, ILIYA GUTIN, SHANNON M. MONNAT   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring factors influencing entry into the gig economy: A study of Chinese workers

Acta Psychologica
This study explores the factors influencing the choices of Chinese workers to enter the gig economy using data from the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) for the years 2014, 2016, and 2018.
Mingming Li, Xinyun Hu, Keyan Jin, Jiachen Han   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Arbeit per App – neue Abhängigkeiten in der Gig Economy. [PDF]

Standort (Berl), 2021
Plöger J, Keuneke F.
europepmc   +1 more source