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Seeking justice beyond the platform economy: migrant workers navigating precarious lives
Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2022Recent literature focuses on the inherent challenges of food delivery work. Less is known about how these injustices impact workers and their lives more broadly, or how workers navigate them.
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Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2022
With the outbreak of COVID-19 and some environmental problems in recent years, consumers prefer to shop online and purchase green products. Considering the benefit of the e-commerce platform, offline retailers face the challenge of whether to enter e ...
Kaiying Cao, Yu Su, Yuqiu Xu, Qiang Guo
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With the outbreak of COVID-19 and some environmental problems in recent years, consumers prefer to shop online and purchase green products. Considering the benefit of the e-commerce platform, offline retailers face the challenge of whether to enter e ...
Kaiying Cao, Yu Su, Yuqiu Xu, Qiang Guo
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New Media & Society, 2020
This article examines how on-demand service workers on digital platforms make and live their time in the case of China’s food delivery industry. Using ethnographic data, the study elucidated multiple facets of couriers’ temporality in their struggle to ...
J. Chen, P. Sun
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This article examines how on-demand service workers on digital platforms make and live their time in the case of China’s food delivery industry. Using ethnographic data, the study elucidated multiple facets of couriers’ temporality in their struggle to ...
J. Chen, P. Sun
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The steam platform economy: From retail to player-driven economies
New Media & Society, 2022In this article, I analyse the Steam platform as a configuration of several market contexts. I argue that Valve, the owner of Steam, maintains a classical retail market catering to large game publishers, while the emphasis of Valve’s own game titles is ...
Anne Mette Thorhauge
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‘Strong regulations’ of China’s platform economy: a preliminary assessment
China Economic Journal, 2022Within two decades, China built a very large platform economy. From the beginning of 2021, however, the Chinese government started to implement a set of new policies, popularly known as ‘strong regulations’, in order to correct improper platform behavior
Yiping Huang
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Work, Employment and Society, 2021
Despite considerable scholarly attention to the proliferation of gig work on digital platforms, research tracing the broad trends of labour relations is scant.
P. Sun, Julie Yujie Chen, U. Rani
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Despite considerable scholarly attention to the proliferation of gig work on digital platforms, research tracing the broad trends of labour relations is scant.
P. Sun, Julie Yujie Chen, U. Rani
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Platform economy and China’s labor market: structural transformation and policy challenges
China Economic Journal, 2022The development of platform economy has accelerated the change of the nature of work, namely from manual labor to automation, from off-line to online, and from fixed employment to flexible arrangement.
Lixing Li, Yiqing Mo, Guangsu Zhou
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2021
Searching for paid tasks via digital labour platforms, such as Uber, Deliveroo and Fiverr, has become a global phenomenon and the regular source of income for millions of people. In the advent of digital labour platforms, this insightful book sheds new light on familiar questions about tensions between competition and cooperation, short-term gains and ...
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Searching for paid tasks via digital labour platforms, such as Uber, Deliveroo and Fiverr, has become a global phenomenon and the regular source of income for millions of people. In the advent of digital labour platforms, this insightful book sheds new light on familiar questions about tensions between competition and cooperation, short-term gains and ...
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New Economy, Platform Economy and Gender
2017The new economy has developed rapidly in recent years with the groundbreaking technological innovations. In that development, the effects of the platform economy, sharing economy and gig economy on the gendered dimensions of work are growing. The chapter discusses the multilayered relationships between the old and the new economies, considers global ...
Seppo Poutanen, Anne Kovalainen
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Precariousness in the Platform Economy
2022This chapter addresses the issue of precarious work in the platform economy. The growth of digital labour platforms has created new forms of organization and outsourcing of labour that generate precariousness and worker insecurity. Online labour platforms transform work along several key dimensions: from full-time to unpredictable hours, from permanent
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