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Navigating autonomy: unraveling the dual influence of job autonomy on workplace well-being in the gig economy [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
IntroductionWith the rapid rise of the gig economy globally, its characteristics of promoting employment and facilitating autonomy have supported its rapid growth and development in China.
Zhitao Wan   +3 more
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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
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The Digital Resistance: Contesting the Power of Gig Economy Platforms through Collective Worker Action

open access: yesItalian Labour Law e-Journal, 2023
This article examines how trade unions and self-organised worker groups have deployed digital organising tools to collectivise gig work, focusing on rideshare and food delivery platforms.
Anthony Forsyth
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Algorithmic management, preferences for autonomy/security and gig-workers' wellbeing: A matter of fit?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
The objective of this study was to understand how gig-workers interpret the effects of their laboral activity on their wellbeing. We developed a grounded theory based on interviews with 57 Brazilian gig-workers.
Bruno Felix   +2 more
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What is fair? The experience of Indonesian gig workers

open access: yesDigital Geography and Society, 2023
Millions of workers are employed in Indonesia's gig economy, with evidence of both benefits and problems. This paper provides a first systematic collation of evidence using the five Fairwork principles of decent gig work.
Treviliana Eka Putri   +2 more
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Evolutionary Dynamics of Gig Economy Labor Strategies under Technology, Policy and Market Influence

open access: yesGames, 2021
The emergence of the modern gig economy introduces a new set of employment considerations for firms and laborers that include various trade-offs. With a game-theoretical approach, we examine the influences of technology, policy and markets on firm and ...
Kevin Hu, Feng Fu
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Adaptation of the legal regulation of labor, civil, tax relations to the gig economy

open access: yesПравоприменение, 2022
The subject of the article is impact the gig economy to the legal regulation of labor, civil, tax relations.The purpose of the article is to identify the problems of legal regulation of relations between gig workers and digital platforms in the gig ...
S. M. Mironova   +2 more
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The gig economy in Chile: Examining labor conditions and the nature of gig work in a Global South country

open access: yesDigital Geography and Society, 2023
While there is growing literature regarding the impact of the gig economy in countries of the Global North, the way it operates in Latin America and the Caribbean remains underexplored.
Arturo Arriagada   +3 more
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The individual in the gig society: is the gig economy exploitative of the informal economy, or a means of empowerment?

open access: yesActa Academica, 2023
This article argues that the gig economy is an exploitative extension of the informal economy. With its decentralised promise of individual entrepreneurship, I will argue that it places undue burdens on the worker as an ‘independent contractor ...
Danelle Fourie
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Getting the first gig: Exploring the affective relations of accessing place-based platform labour

open access: yesDigital Geography and Society, 2023
Platform labour has established itself as a new form of work in recent years. The platforms themselves advertise the flexibility and freedom of being an independent contractor as beneficial characteristics of their working arrangements. However, existing
Marisol Keller
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