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Navigating platform work through solidarity and hustling: the case of ride-hailing drivers in Nairobi, Kenya

open access: yesOnline Media and Global Communication
Scholarship about worker precarity, economic insecurity, and individualized risk in platform work tends to ignore that these trends are common features of informal economies in countries like Kenya, which has a culture of hustling rooted in economic ...
Ekdale Brian, Aidoo Ebenezer
doaj   +1 more source

Gig Economy

open access: yesEncyclopedia
This entry presents the history, geography, business, regulations, and the roles of gig workers, platform/algorithms, and employers, focusing primarily on the USA and the EU.
Răzvan Hoinaru
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Algorithmic management, wellbeing and platform work: understanding the psychosocial risks and experiences of food couriers in Finland

open access: yesLabour and Industry
Digitalisation has made algorithmic management a defining feature of platform work. This study explores the psychosocial stresses and risks associated with different algorithmic management practices and analyses the applicability of Job Demand-Control ...
Benta Mbare, M. Perkiö, Meri Koivusalo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Work platform is supported by self-locking blades [PDF]

open access: yes, 1967
Work platform has a supporting plate to engage the deck edge of the supporting structure when lowered into place. The plate is attached to blades hinged to the platform, rigidly supporting the platform when latched, and allowing the platform to be moved ...
Rudderow, T.
core   +1 more source

LO-MATCH: A semantic platform for matching migrants' competences with labour market's needs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Citizens' mobility and employability are receiving ever more attention by the European legislation. Various instruments have been defined to overcome lexical and semantic differences in the descriptions of qualifications, résumés and job profiles ...
Demartini, Claudio Giovanni   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Revealing the structure of land plant photosystem II: the journey from negative‐stain EM to cryo‐EM

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Advances in cryo‐EM have revealed the detailed structure of Photosystem II, a key protein complex driving photosynthesis. This review traces the journey from early low‐resolution images to high‐resolution models, highlighting how these discoveries deepen our understanding of light harvesting and energy conversion in plants.
Roman Kouřil
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Working on Digital Platforms

open access: yesJournal of Medical & Clinical Nursing, 2021
This study aims to discuss work on digital platforms. Therefore, it addresses labor relations in the information society; explains the “new” figures that emerged with parasubordination; and it explains what is conventionally called uberization, emphasizing the uncertainty and instability to which workers are exposed.
openaire   +1 more source

The Moral Economy of Platform Work

open access: yesAsiascape Digital Asia, 2022
Gig Economy platforms have become enmeshed in the fabric of urban sociality. While they have substantially disrupted conditions of labouring, participating in the platform economy has also changed social and moral norms globally.
Noopur Raval, Simiran Lalvani
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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