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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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Reputation Agent: Prompting Fair Reviews in Gig Markets
, 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
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The negative interpersonal interaction between customers and platform gig workers has become a problem for platform owners and government. This study investigates the role of negative customer treatment in the context of gig work and its impact on gig ...
He Xiongtao +3 more
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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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Gig Workers, Financial Resilience and Financial Literacy in Supporting Decent Work and Economic Inclusion [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThis study aims to analyze the effects of gig work characteristics and financial literacy on financial resilience among young gig workers in Magelang, Indonesia to supporting decent work and economic inclusion.
Hidayah Nur +3 more
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Worker solidarity among gig and precarious workers
, 2022 This chapter provides examples of how the inherent contradictions of the labour process in the gig economy provide the potential for the emergence of solidarity and resistance even in the ‘brave new world’ of the platform economy and of the mechanisms through which gig workers solidarities are forged, enacted, and contested across different social ...
Maccarrone V, Tassinari A
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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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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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Fast Drink: Mediating Empathy for Gig Workers
Proceedings of the 2nd Empathy-Centric Design Workshop, 2023 Internet of ...
Wo Meijer +3 more
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