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Putting Fairness into the Gig Economy: Delivery Cooperatives as Alternatives to Corporate Platforms
Societies, 2023 Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, platform capitalism has expanded greatly in the delivery sector. The consolidation of an oligopoly controlled by a few corporate platforms has led to precarious working conditions for “gig economy” workers.
Ernest Cañada +2 more
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What’s in a word? Platforms Supporting the Platform Economy
Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society, 2020 This paper aspires to develop a deeper understanding of the sharing/collaborative/platform economy, and in particular of the technical mechanisms upon which the digital platforms supporting it are built. In surveying the research literature, the paper identifies a gap between studies from economical, social or socio-technical angles, and presentations ...
Bødker, Susanne +2 more
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Urban Science, 2020 The aim of this article is to shed light on how ongoing structural change towards the global digital economy condition urban economic development. Discussion starts with a brief reference to the growth machine thesis and its emphasis on the interests of ...
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko +2 more
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Formation of platform co-ops in the European gig economy
, 2021 This database is compiled as part of my PhD project on the challenges that gig workers face when organising themselves in a worker-owned and worker-governed cooperative enterprise.
Damion Bunders (Rotterdam School of Management)
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The Impact of the Platform Economy on Urban–Rural Integration Development: Evidence from China
Land, 2023 As a new economic system composed of data-driven, platform-supported, and network-coordinated economic activity units, the platform economy provides a new impetus for the integrated development of urban and rural areas. This paper uses China’s provincial
Wang Zhang
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The Gig is Up: Who does Gig Economy actually Benefit? [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2021 This article takes on the task of exploring gig economy in its various forms and definitions, starting from its economic origins as a way to reduce transaction costs and overheads in firms making use of modern technology, and working up to some of its ...
Luka Bulian
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La grande scommessa. Turismo e pandemia a Firenze.
Cambio, 2022 This paper is centred on the analysis of some recent developments of the touristic system in the italian city of Firenze. The COVID-19 pandemic hit hard the urban economic system of the city, which is increasingly dependent on tourism.
Alessio Di Marco +2 more
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GENDER Platform: Methods module kickoff workshop [PDF]
, 2021 The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), as lead of the Methods Module of the GENDER Platform, organized and hosted the workshop. The workshop was facilitated by Stephan Dohrn of Radical Inclusion and Simrin Makhija, IFPRI.
CGIAR GENDER Platform
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Google Scholar: Platforming the Scholarly Economy
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022 Google Scholar has become an important player in the scholarly economy. Whereas typical academic publishers sell bibliometrics, analytics and ranking products, Alphabet, through Google Scholar, provides “free” tools for academic search and scholarly evaluation that have made it central to academic practice.
Jake Goldenfein, Daniel Griffin
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Collective Bargaining and the Gig Economy [PDF]
, 2022 This open access book investigates the role of collective bargaining in the gig economy. Despite the variety of situations covered by the term “gig economy”, collective agreements for employees and non-employees are being concluded in various countries ...
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