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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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Platform Economy and COVID-19: A Look at Delivery, Home Care, and Online Freelance Work in Spain and Latin America [PDF]
, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated trends in the digital economy that were not anticipated for another five or ten years and has upended daily life, introducing new social dynamics and consumption patterns.
Inter-American Development Bank
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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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Missing voices? Integrating worker voice and social dialogue in the platform economy
, 2022 The gig economy can be defined as a broad range of labour transactions taking place through digital media, which relies on what have become known as gig workers (Kenney & Zysman, 2016; Schor & Attwood-Charles, 2017; Srnicek, 2017).
Mowbray, Paula K +3 more
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Becoming a Platform in Europe [PDF]
, 2021 Emerging out of the collaborative work conducted within the Working Group “Mechanisms to activate and support the collaborative economy” of the COST Action “From Sharing to Caring: Examining Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative Economy”, the book
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Labouring (on) the app: agency and organisation of work in the platform economy
, 2022 Women have a long history of organising in the informal economy, despite facing several challenges around geographical dispersion, time poverty, and lack of recognition.
Tandon, Ambika, Sekharan, Abhishek
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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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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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