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International Regulation of Platform Labor: A Proposal for Action

open access: yesWeizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 2021
Platform-mediated work is a source of livelihood for millions of workers worldwide. However, because platforms typically classify workers as ‘independent contractors’, those workers are generally excluded from the scope of labor rights.
Sandra Fredman   +5 more
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The Digital Resistance: Contesting the Power of Gig Economy Platforms through Collective Worker Action

open access: yesItalian Labour Law e-Journal, 2023
This article examines how trade unions and self-organised worker groups have deployed digital organising tools to collectivise gig work, focusing on rideshare and food delivery platforms.
Anthony Forsyth
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Implementation of decent work standards on platform workers: Different approaches [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu
The question of the legal status of platform workers has occupied the attention of the professional public for quite a time, but still remains without an unified answer.
Jašarević Senad R.   +1 more
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It Obliges You to Do Things You Normally Wouldn't: Organizing and Consuming Private Life in the Age of Airbnb

open access: yesPartecipazione e Conflitto, 2019
In what ways do everyday life and private spaces become productive elements for platform organizations? Referring to a research on Airbnb (a platform-based company and current leader at the global level in the online hospitality industry) recently ...
Attila Bruni, Fabio Maria Esposito
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Not So Easy, Riders: The Struggle For The Collective Protection of Gig-Economy Workers

open access: yesItalian Labour Law e-Journal, 2021
The contribution aims at critically analyze the Labour Tribunal of Florence decision, which in February 2021 stated that Art. 28 of the Italian Workers’ Statute could be actioned only in relation to anti-trade unions practices arising from employment ...
Giuseppe Antonio Recchia
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Artificial intelligence at work: The problem of managerial control from call centers to transport platforms

open access: yesFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2022
There has been much recent research on the topic of artificial intelligence at work, which is increasingly featuring in more types of work and across the labor process. Much research takes the application of artificial intelligence, in its various forms,
Jamie Woodcock
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Worker Resistance in Digital Capitalism| Communication and Work From Below: The Role of Communication in Organizing Delivery Platform Workers

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2023
This article analyzes the role of communication with delivery platform workers, drawing on research in the United Kingdom and Brazil. It discusses the relationship between communication and work from a Marxist perspective, the importance of communication
Rafael Grohmann   +2 more
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Precarization via Digitalization? Work Arrangements in the On-Demand Platform Economy in Hungary and Slovakia

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2020
The concept of precarity is increasingly used for an analysis of standard and non-standard (atypical) employment forms—yet among atypical employment forms, platform-driven work is rarely included.
Marta Kahancová   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Algorithmic Management in the Food Delivery Sector – a Contested Terrain?

open access: yesWeizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
Forms of algorithmic management (AM) play an essential role in organizing food-delivery work by deploying artificial intelligence-based systems to coordinate driver routes.
Philip Wotschack   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Platform Work and the Danish Model – Legal Perspectives

open access: yesNordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2018
Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, No 1 (2018)
Munkholm, Natalie Videbæk   +1 more
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