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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
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The health of workers in the global gig economy

open access: yesGlobalization 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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Legal support of social guarantees for persons employed in the gig economy: Russian and foreign experience

open access: yesПравоприменение
The subject. Legal support of social guarantees for persons employed in the gig economy: russian and foreign experienceThe purpose of the article is to reveal the features of providing social guarantees to gig workers, as well as protecting their rights ...
S. M. Mironova
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Digital Labour Platformer’s Legal Status and Decent Working Conditions: European Union and Indonesian Perspective

open access: yesVolksgeist
This article aims to provide the recent court decision on legal status and working conditions for the gig worker in European Union as well as a lesson for Indonesia through the EU’s notion on gig workers.
Rofi Aulia Rahman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Starlight or shadow? Gendered outcomes of star collaborations for independent non-star gig workers: evidence from the board game design industry

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
Gig workers, who perform temporary, project-based work on a short-term or freelance basis, typically lack access to formal training, and they rely on informal learning to accumulate human capital.
Mingze Ma   +3 more
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Challenges with gig workers : A mediator perspective

open access: yes, 2019
A new type of worker, the gig worker, is acknowledge and problematized as to what challenges mediators can face with managing them as previous research points out their differences from other workers. The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze
Puusepp, Christopher
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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
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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
doaj   +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

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