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Stratified pathways into platform work: Migration trajectories and skills in Berlin’s gig economy

Environment and Planning, 2023
Platform labour scholars have noted the prevalence of migrant workers in the gig economy. This paper builds on this research but interrogates the broad concept of ‘migrant labour’.
Barbara Orth
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Worker resistance strategies and union action in platform work: the case of Uber in Spain

Employee Relations: The International Journal, 2023
PurposeThe author analyses the strategies developed by workers and unions to obtain representation and the successes and limitations of the strategies, in a context of platform work such as Spanish dominated by labour relations of employee workers.Design/
Víctor Riesgo Gómez
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Riders in app time: Exploring the temporal experiences of food delivery platform work

Time & Society, 2023
This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork among bicycle food delivery riders in Brussels who worked through the digital platform Deliveroo. The article engages the riders’ specific temporal experiences of platform work.
Katrine Duus, Maja Hojer Bruun, Anne Line Dalsgård   +2 more
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Producing speed on demand: Reconfiguration of space and time in food delivery platform work

Information Systems Journal, 2022
Existing IS research on platform work has narrowly focused on the managerial operations of algorithmic management or its business implications. Limited research has paid attention to the scalar effects and societal implications of platform work.
Yingqin Zheng, Philip Fei Wu
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Multiparty relationships in platform work: Cross-European case law developments and points of departure for (supranational) regulation

European Labour Law Journal, 2023
Multiparty constellations are on the rise in the labour market, and they can make the classification of contractual relationships exceedingly difficult.
Christina Hiessl
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Platform work in the domestic and home care sector: new mechanisms of invisibility and exploitation of women migrant workers

Gender & Development, 2022
The platform economy is conquering the domestic work and home care sector in countries of the global North as a response to the scarcity of affordable quality care services. Based on in-depth interviews with workers, firms and stakeholders, the objective
Paula Rodríguez-Modroño, Astrid Agenjo-Calderón, Purificación López-Igual   +2 more
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The role of organizational settings in social learning: An ethnographic focus on food-delivery platform work

Human Relations, 2022
How do organizational settings influence learning mechanisms and their outcomes? Based on a 26-month online and offline ethnography, the article specifically analyses couriers’ learning in the context of food-delivery platform work, marked by the ...
Claire Le Breton, Sophia Galière
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