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Fair’s fair: psychological contracts and power in platform work

International journal of human resources management, 2021
Platform work can be understood as a particularly acute instance of the individualization of economic risk. Responding to the broader trends of labour commodification and decline of the standard employment relationship, psychological contract theory ...
G. Shanahan, Mark A. Smith
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Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work

Work, Employment and Society
The ‘gig economy’ encompasses a wide range of jobs, platforms and workers. In this article, we provide the first quantitative evidence in support of the model of job quality developed by Wood et al.
Alex J Wood   +2 more
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Platform work as a consequence of welfare regime performance

Competition & Change
In this paper we focus on the impact of welfare institutions on the supply of platform workers. We assume that at the individual level the decision to engage or not in platform work depends on the available alternatives.
Giuliano Bonoli   +2 more
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The multidimensional configuration of platform work: A mixed-methods analysis of the Argentinian case

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2022
The aim of this article is to make a contribution to understanding platform work in a comprehensive and geographically situated way, and thus to consider comprehensive responses to its precarising character. The author proposes an analytical framework in
Julieta Haidar
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Is it possible to outsmart Uber? Individual working tactics within platform work in Poland

European Societies: The Official Journal of the European Sociological Association, 2022
Platform work in general requires workers to apply specific strategies to stay afloat. In Poland, platform work is a complex system of mutual relations and interdependencies between transnational corporations, national regulators, service providers ...
Dominika Polkowska, Bartosz Mika
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An unlikely stepping stone? Exploring how platform work shapes newcomer migrant integration

Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, 2021
The rise of digital labour platform work has drawn researchers to study how migrants are impacted by greater technology dependence in the workforce, and whether platform work might accelerate migrants’ entry into precarious, low-income, contingent work ...
L. Lam, A. Triandafyllidou
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Variations of Freelancers’ “Effort-Bargain” Experiences in Platform Work: The Role of Skills

ILR Review
This article delves into freelancers’“effort-bargain” experiences within platform work, where effort is exchanged for income. The study of experiences enables us to understand how freelancer–platform relationships evolve in light of the platforms’ lack ...
Valeria Pulignano   +2 more
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Social media and platform work: Stories, practices, and workers’ organisation

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
This article introduces the special issue, ‘Social Media and Platform Work: Stories, Practices, and Workers’ Organisation’. In recent years, platform labour studies have increasingly focused on how the growing platformisation of labour has changed work ...
Júlia Vilasís-Pamos   +3 more
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Platform work and traditional employee protection: The need for alternative legal approaches

European Labour Law Journal
Paid work via digital platforms (so-called crowd work and gig work) is gaining in importance in Europe. Platform workers often suffer poor working conditions. Most platform companies treat crowd and gig workers as self-employed or independent contractors
Sonja Mangold
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Platform Work in Europe

2021
This book is the culmination of fruitful discussions that began at a 2018 conference in Milan on platform work. It contains national reports (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom) in which the respective authors provide expert analysis and insight as concerns some important questions that arose during the ...
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