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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.
openaire   +2 more sources

Gig work in transnational spaces: infrastructures of migration and the simultaneous lives of migrants in the gig economy

open access: yesJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
This article explores how platform-mediated gig work is entangled in the migration process across transnational, national and local scales. Drawing on the concepts of simultaneity and migration infrastructure from critical transnational migration studies
M. Andersen, Marlene Spanger
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mapping the Research Landscape of the Gig Work for Design on Labour Research

open access: yesIASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design, 2023
Economic activities are built on several essential factors such as capital, technology, and notably, labour. Despite extensive exploration of economic activities in the last decade, prior design research has overlooked the impact of Design on Labour ...
Shuhao Ma
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Third Class of Worker: The Dependent Contractor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The following research paper is intended to address the worker classification issue that has intensified due to the rise of the gig economy. After reviewing the current literature on the subject, it will be made clear that a change must be made to the ...
Fendrick, Lisa J.
core   +1 more source

The future of hospitality jobs: The rise of the gig worker

open access: yesResearch 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
doaj   +1 more source

Systematic evaluation of gig work against decent work standards: The development and application of the Fairwork framework

open access: yesThe Information Society, 2021
Growth of gig work – short-term tasks organized and mediated by digital labor platforms such as Uber and Upwork – is the focus for an increasing body of research.
R. Heeks   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Customer-Directed Counterproductive Work Behavior of Gig Workers in Crowdsourced Delivery: A Perspective on Customer Injustice

open access: yesSystems
In the platform economy, customers are the primary interaction partners of gig workers, and their behaviors and attitudes significantly influence gig workers’ work experiences and behavioral responses.
Yanfeng Liu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gig worker's perceived algorithmic management, stress appraisal, and destructive deviant behavior.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
With the advance of data technologies, gig platforms have applied data and algorithms to their management and put more stringent requirements on gig workers through algorithmic management.
Linzi Zhang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

On limited-memory quasi-Newton methods for minimizing a quadratic function

open access: yes, 2018
The main focus in this paper is exact linesearch methods for minimizing a quadratic function whose Hessian is positive definite. We give two classes of limited-memory quasi-Newton Hessian approximations that generate search directions parallel to those ...
Ek, David, Forsgren, Anders
core   +1 more source

Gig Work in Post Pandemic Times: Does it an Agile Work Structure?

open access: yesJournal of Entrepreneurship and Business, 2023
Gig economy is known as situations where workers work based on demand or known as ‘online gig work’, or on-demand economy’. The purpose of this paper is to explore the effectiveness of gig work configuration to overcome the post pandemic impacts ...
Syuhaida Mohamed, N. Mat
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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