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African Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary Studies, 2023 Digital work, otherwise referred to as 'gig' work, is heralded as a useful strategy that could help bridge the unemployment rate in South Africa by connecting job seekers and business organisations across the global spectrum.
Sudhika Palhad +5 more
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Literature Review of the Gig Economy from a Product Development Perspective:
Maketingu Janaru, 2021 In recent years, growing attention has been paid to the gig economy among both practitioners and academic researchers. The Gig economy refers to socioeconomic activities involving the exchange of labor for monetary reward between gig workers and client ...
Susumu Ohira
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Collective Bargaining and the Gig Economy [PDF]
, 2022 This open access book investigates the role of collective bargaining in the gig economy. Despite the variety of situations covered by the term “gig economy”, collective agreements for employees and non-employees are being concluded in various countries ...
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The future of hospitality jobs: The rise of the gig worker
Research in Hospitality Management, 2021 This review article aims to analyse the different perspectives on the gig economy and gig workers, specifically in the hospitality industry, and establish a research base that contributes to future research.
Georges El Hajal, Bill Rowson
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Prospects of Integrating Gig Economy in the Saudi Arabian Health-care System from the Perspectives of Health-care Decision-makers and Practitioners. [PDF]
J Healthc Leadersh, 2021 Turki Alanzi Health Information Management and Technology Department, College of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Turki AlanziHealth Information Management and Technology Department, College of ...
Alanzi T.
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, 2022 The article offers a timely study of the gendered experience of gig work in China and prioritises the nexus of an intersectional feminist approach to explore women workers’ situated problematics and precarious employment in ride-hailing ...
Kwan, Haley
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Entrepreneurship and the gig economy: A bibliometric analysis
Management Letters/Cuadernos de Gestión, 2022 There is an increasing number of academic publications on studying the impact of the gig economy and digital platforms. Some of them involve entrepreneurship and business models.
Bruno C. Silva, Antonio C. Moreira
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IZA World of Labor, 2020 The number of people holding non-traditional jobs (independent contractors, temporary workers, “gig” workers) has grown steadily as technology increasingly enables short-term labor contracting and fixed employment costs continue to rise. For many firms that need less than a full-time person for short-term work and for many workers who value flexibility
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Weakening worker protections? Uncovering the gig economy and the future of work in the UK
, 2023 In this chapter on the UK context, we offer an analysis that is multidimensional in that the perspectives that are adopted cut across macro (policymaking), meso (trade unions and labour organisations) and micro (self-employed workers).
Montgomery, Tom, Baglioni, Simone
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Are young people aged 16-19 using or expecting to use the gig economy for their careers [PDF]
, 2020 Amid growing precarity and zero hour contracts, the ‘gig economy’ represents a new way of working mediated by web technology. Workers can sign up to a work platform – a website or smartphone program that manages the work automatically – and take on work ...
Neary, S. +2 more
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