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An Alternative to State-Market Dualism: The Sharing Economy. Practical and Epistemological Questions [PDF]
, 2016 International audienceThe Sharing Economy is much more than collaborative consumption (Botsman and Rogers, 2011) even if this appears as the most visible achievement of this sector. Production, consumption, finance, exchanges are disrupted by the sharing
Vallat, David
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Theorizing Labor in the Platform Economy: Labor Restructuring in Historical Perspective
Sociology Compass, Volume 18, Issue 11, November 2024.ABSTRACT The rise of the platform economy is one of the most widely debated issues in contemporary studies of work and labor relations. Scholarly work on platform labor has been permeated by claims of radical restructuring, either caused or exacerbated by the disruptive properties of algorithms, networks and data‐driven systems of control.
Ahlem Faraoun
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The Precarious Work in Cultural Domains: The Case of Brazilian Youtubers [PDF]
, 2020 The present study aims to identify possible indicators of precariousness in the work organisation of the occupation of the Brazilian Youtuber. The development of this study was based on problematic work in cultural domains.
Klafke, Renata Vidart +1 more
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THE WRESTLER AND HIS WORLD: Precarious Workers, Post‐Truth Politics, and Inauthentic Activism
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 485-506, November 2024.ABSTRACT In this article, I explore attempts to organize a precarious workforce in a setting that is always‐already post‐truth: professional wrestling. I focus in particular on a nascent, bottom‐up unionization effort in the UK that foregrounds the rights of wrestlers who perform for low wages, in unsafe environments, and in the absence of both the ...
GREGORY HOLLIN
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Human Resource Management, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 413-426, May/June 2024.Abstract This paper reflects on the paradigmatic assumptions and ideologies that have shaped algorithmic management research. We identify two sets of assumptions: one about the “ontology of algorithms” (which holds that human resource management [HRM] algorithms are non‐human entities with material agency) and one about the “ontology of management ...
Laura Lamers +2 more
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Gig Economy, Austerty and “Uberization” of Labor in Brazil (2014 – 2019)
, 2020 This article aims to understand the exponential growth of the “Uberization” of labor in Brazil by analyzing the economic crisis and the austerity program that started in 2014.
G. Pires, José Paulo Guedes Pinto
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Implementing Uberization in Malaysian Healthcare Services
Borneo Journal of Medical Sciences, 2020 Getting appropriate healthcare is a challenge to the citizens in Malaysia due to the limited facilities, healthcare providers, and cost of healthcare. Uberization of healthcare will help fill this gap.
R. K. Muniandy, Merly Grace Lansing
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Creation of the algorithmic management questionnaire: A six‐phase scale development process
Human Resource Management, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 25-44, January/February 2024.Abstract There is an increasing body of research on algorithmic management (AM), but the field lacks measurement tools to capture workers' experiences of this phenomenon. Based on existing literature, we developed and validated the algorithmic management questionnaire (AMQ) to measure the perceptions of workers regarding their level of exposure to AM ...
Xavier Parent‐Rocheleau +3 more
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What Might Replace the Modern Corporation? Uberization and the Web Page Enterprise [PDF]
, 2016 The number of public corporations in the United States has been in decline for almost twenty years. Alternative forms of organization, from LLCs and benefit corporations to Linux and Wikipedia, provide robust competition to traditional corporations ...
Davis, Gerald F.
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Bulletin de l’Association de Géographes FrançaisIn this article we analyze the relationships between the two particular urbanization mechanisms that are uberization and altermetropolization, focusing more particularly on the set-up and evolution of the Airbnb platform in the cities of Marseilles ...
Alexandre Grondeau, Gwénaëlle Dourthe
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