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Outsmarting the gig-economy through collective bargaining – EU competition law as a barrier to smart cities? [PDF]
, 2018 In August 2016, drivers delivering meals in London after being booked via the platforms ‘deliveroo’ and ‘UberEATS’ made headlines by challenging working practices in the gig-economy through collective industrial action.
Gideon, Andrea, Schiek, Dagmar
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Getting the first gig: Exploring the affective relations of accessing place-based platform labour
Digital 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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The Dark Side of Micro-Task Marketplaces: Characterizing Fiverr and Automatically Detecting Crowdturfing [PDF]
, 2014 As human computation on crowdsourcing systems has become popular and powerful for performing tasks, malicious users have started misusing these systems by posting malicious tasks, propagating manipulated contents, and targeting popular web services such ...
Ge, Hancheng, Lee, Kyumin, Webb, Steve
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Digital 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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Speculations on Solidarity: From Fordism to the Gig Economy [PDF]
, 2020 In this paper, Roedl traces the decline of worker solidarity starting with labor’s heyday in the 1930s and beforehand through an analysis of Fordism, post-Fordism, and ending on the recent phase of the gig economy.
Roedl, Kendra
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The health of workers in the global gig economy
Globalization and Health, 2018 Background The “gig” economy connects consumers with contractors (or workers) through online platform businesses to perform tasks (or “gigs”). This innovation in technology provides businesses and consumers access to low-cost, on-demand labour, but gig ...
Uttam Bajwa +3 more
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Antitrust, the Gig Economy, and Labor Market Power [PDF]
, 2019 The purpose of the current study was to develop and validate an automatic algorithm for classification of cross-country (XC) ski-skating gears (G) using Smartphone accelerometer data.
Steinbaum, Marshall
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All Insecure? Insecurity Profiles and Their Antecedents in Employed Gig Workers
Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational PsychologyGig 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
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Adaptation of the legal regulation of labor, civil, tax relations to the gig economy
Правоприменение, 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 Big, Gig Picture: We Can\u27t Assume the Same Constructs Matter
, 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.
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