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Digital labour and development: impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods. [PDF]

Transfer (Bruss), 2017
Graham M, Hjorth I, Lehdonvirta V.
europepmc   +1 more source

Bret/BRAT

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Nicholas Smart
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating and Advancing the Use of Shore‐Based Observers for Scientific Sampling and Catch Verification in High‐Volume Fisheries

Fisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Shore‐based observers are increasingly being used in place of at‐sea observers to monitor and sample commercial fisheries catch. However, few evaluations assess whether these programs meet their stated goals or how to optimize them, and industry data are rarely tested for accuracy despite serving as the foundation for catch accounting. Using a
Christian Gredzens, Andy Kingham, Jason E. Jannot   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Larval Transport Pathways Reveal Critical Habitat and Benefits of a Marine Protected Area to Fisheries

Fisheries Oceanography, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Quantifying where marine organisms are born and subsequently disperse to is essential for fisheries management. Here, we conducted Lagrangian particle tracking of viviparous rockfish (Sebastes spp.) collected in the Southern California Bight over the course of 16 years.
Lucinda A. Quigley, Peter J. S. Franks, Andrew R. Thompson, Noah Ben‐Aderet, H. William Fennie, Mark M. Morales, Jarrod A. Santora, Eric P. Bjorkstedt   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rise of the 'Gig Economy' and it's Health Toll on Workers.

Indian J Occup Environ Med
Joseph B, Joseph M.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Digital Doorway: Technology Access and Digital Literacy as Determinants of Youth Participation in the Gig Economy in Embakasi Sub- County, Nairobi County, Kenya

Denis Ngetha Mwangi
openalex   +2 more sources

Quality of Employment of High School Graduates: Focusing on the Effect of Student Vocational Education and Training Experience

International Journal of Training and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to identify latent employment quality patterns among vocational high school graduates and examine how these patterns are influenced by their upper‐secondary vocational education and training (VET) experiences. Grounded in the International Labour Organisation's concept of decent work, this study considers employment quality ...
Seong Ji Jeong
wiley   +1 more source

Union–Member Engagement in Cambodia's Construction Sector

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues for the concept of adaptive unionism as a useful way to explore the pragmatic, often short‐term approach that unions adopt just to survive in many parts of the Global South, exploring the impact of an adaptive approach through a comparative study of the Building and Wood Workers Trade Union Federation of Cambodia's ...
Michele Ford, Vichhra Mouyly
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Canada's Working Income Tax Benefit on the Labor Supply of Low‐Income Workers

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We use administrative tax data to estimate the effect of the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) on the labor supply of single, low‐income workers in Canada. Our analytical approach exploits low knowledge of the program, which generates variation in the benefit receipt both between and within eligible tax filers over time.
Kourtney Koebel, Dionne Pohler
wiley   +1 more source

Building Legitimacy in the UK Platform Economy: Representative Strategies of Independent and Mainstream Trade Unions

Industrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper we explore the representative strategies of different trade unions within the UK platform economy, and the efforts to build legitimacy among a disparate workforce. Using data from multiple in‐depth research projects, we find that independent unions and self‐organised groups are competing to build representative claims from the ...
Mathew Johnson, Morgan Rhys Powell, Eva Herman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source