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Kicking off a Gig Work Career: Unfolding a Career Learning Cycle of Gig Workers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
We observe gig workers’ retrospective sense-making of their career development, from creating an account on online labor platforms to managing gigs successfully.
Spurk, Daniel, Straub, Caroline
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Chapter 12 Individual Work Pricing by Non-fungible Personal Tokens (“NFT Gig Tokens”) – a New Opportunity for Gig Workers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the way people operate in all fields of their activity – individual, social, economic, cultural, civic, to name the most essential spheres.
Marchewka-Bartkowiak, Kamilla   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Gig Workers and Work-Life Balance

open access: yes
The current study builds on prior work-life balance (e.g., Grawitch et al., 2010; Grawitch et al., 2013) and stress (e.g, Job-Demands Resources Model [JD-R] Bakker et al., 2007; Demerouti et al., 2001) research conducted with traditional employees and ...
Kristi Lavigne, Matthew J Grawitch
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Gendered precarious employment in China's gig economy: exploring women gig drivers’ intersectional vulnerabilities and resistances

open access: yes, 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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The intersections of migration, app-based gig work, and career development: implications for career practice and research

open access: yes, 2022
The incidence of app-based gig work is expanding rapidly in developed global north countries. Many app-based gig workers are migrants from developing global south countries searching for a better life in their resettlement countries.
Abkhezr, Peyman, McMahon, Mary
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Gig Work Project

open access: yes, 2022
We are interested in how working in a gig-job impacts a host of behavioral and attitudinal variables across life domains. We apply self-determination theory to see if psychological need thwarting in individuals' primary work domain can be complimented or
Cagla Celik, Liam Patrick Maher
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Gig Work, Algorithmic Technologies, and the Uncertain Future of Work

open access: yes, 2023
AbstractThroughout the last decade, the so-called gig economy has emerged as a disruptive and widely debated trend in the world of work. In this chapter, we trace the emergence of the gig economy from its inception during the global economic crisis to the present day where gig work arrangements span several sectors and face continuing scrutiny from ...
Duggan, James, Jooss, Stefan
openaire   +4 more sources

Domestic work and the gig economy

open access: yes, 2022
The provision of cleaning, childcare and other housework through online platforms is an increasingly important sector. This chapter identifies key challenges domestic work in the gig economy creates for workers' rights protections and proposes an agenda for future research.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Gig Economy and Contingent Work [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 2017
"The gig economy describes forms of contingent work arrangements that require digital platforms, representing an evolution in contingent work, both in moving up the educational scale and in increased visibility. It has engaged many workers who are highly educated and might previously have been in traditional employer-employee relationships, and appears
Tran, Molly, Sokas, Rosemary K.
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Platformic Management, Boundary Resources for Gig Work, and Worker Autonomy

open access: yes, 2020
We advance the concept of platformic management, and the ways in which platforms help to structure project-based or “gig” work. We do so knowing that the popular press and a substantial number of the scholarly publications characterize the “rise of the ...
Sutherland, Will   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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