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Reputation Agent: Prompting Fair Reviews in Gig Markets

open access: yes, 2020
Our study presents a new tool, Reputation Agent, to promote fairer reviews from requesters (employers or customers) on gig markets. Unfair reviews, created when requesters consider factors outside of a worker's control, are known to plague gig workers ...
Bennett L.   +22 more
core   +1 more source

The social construction of algorithms: A reassessment of algorithmic management in food delivery gig work

open access: yesNew technology, work and employment, 2023
Algorithms are usually regarded as fixed objects. In contrast, the article conceptualises and analyses the (social) construction of algorithmic management.
Heiner Heiland
semanticscholar   +1 more source

All Insecure? Insecurity Profiles and Their Antecedents in Employed Gig Workers

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
Gig work has been increasing in past years and is usually portrayed as a precarious and vulnerable non-standard employment form characterized by high insecurity.
Claudia Bernhard-Oettel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Big, Gig Picture: We Can\u27t Assume the Same Constructs Matter

open access: yes, 2017
I am concerned about industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology\u27s relevance to the gig economy, defined here as the broad trends toward technology-based platform work. This sort of work happens on apps like Uber (where the app connects drivers and
Brawley Newlin, Alice M.
core   +1 more source

A Ghost Workers' Bill of Rights: How to Establish a Fair and Safe Gig Work Platform [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Many of us assume that all the free editing and sorting of online content we ordinarily rely on is carried out by AI algorithms — not human persons. Yet in fact, that is often not the case.
Balkin, David   +2 more
core  

Face Work: A Human-Centered Investigation into Facial Verification in Gig Work

open access: yesProc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2023
Through intensive research on datasets, benchmarks, and models, the computer-vision community has taken great strides to identify the societal biases intrinsic to these technologies.
E. A. Watkins
semanticscholar   +1 more source

SymFET: A Proposed Symmetric Graphene Tunneling Field Effect Transistor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this work, an analytical model to calculate the channel potential and current-voltage characteristics in a Symmetric tunneling Field-Effect-Transistor (SymFET) is presented. The current in a SymFET flows by tunneling from an n-type graphene layer to a
Feenstra, Randall M.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Infrastructural Services and Social Security Benefits play Catalytic role for Gig Workers of Food and Beverage Industry in Mumbai Metropolitan Region [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Research in Administrative Sciences
Gig work is increasing across all industries and sectors all over world after pandemic. In Mumbai, the gig workers of food and beverage industry are more as compared to other municipal corporations in Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
RODE Sanjay
doaj   +1 more source

New Face of Job Quality Challenge in India: Gig Worker Studies

open access: yesJournal of Indonesian Applied Economics, 2023
Purpose This research aims to describe the gig worker challenge and opportunity including job quality in India remembering that gig work is spreading rapidly among nations and has been the source of earning for most of the destitute population ...
Farhat Haque, Abdul Rahman Dard
doaj   +1 more source

Sociological Types of Precarity Among Gig Workers: Lived Experiences of Food Delivery Workers in Riga

open access: yesSocial Inclusion
In this article, we examine the lived experiences of precariousness in gig work, a growing sector of the modern labor market, through the case of Latvia, a former Soviet republic that has experienced radical neo‐liberalization over the last 30 years ...
Iveta Ķešāne, Maija Spuriņa
doaj   +1 more source

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