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Fostering sustainability through technology-mediated interactions:Conviviality and reciprocity in the sharing economy [PDF]
PurposeThis article addresses the lack of scholarly attention paid to the sharing economy from a sociological perspective, with respect to the technology-mediated interactions between sharing economy users.
Carrigan, Marylyn +3 more
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The Uber driver is not an entrepreneur / O motorista do Uber não é empreendedor
Purpose: To analyze the conceptual relationship between entrepreneurship and the Uber driver since the company is the pinnacle of a new way of organizing work.
Lucas Casagrande +2 more
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Objetivo: Este artigo analisa o cenário brasileiro do trabalho mediado por plataformas digitais (digitrab). Originalidade/valor: O digitrab representa o arranjo laboral alternativo ao modelo de emprego tradicional de longo termo que mais tem crescido ...
Laila L. Carneiro +4 more
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Uberization: from labour deregulation to deepening precariousness of app delivery drivers
O presente artigo analisa as condições precárias de trabalho que acomete os entregadores de aplicativos, a partir do contexto de contrarreformas e do crescimento das TICs no mundo do labor.
Ariadne Oliveira, N. Luna
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The subject of the study is modernization of budget relations based on horizontal decentralized connections. The relevance of the study is mitigation of the shortcomings and risks in 2023, especially the tax on excess profits of previous years.
T. N. Burdelova
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Digital labour platforms, encompassing on-demand translation work via apps and websites, have grown exponentially in recent years and have significant consequences for translation workers. This study explores the critical literature on digital labour
Gökhan Fırat
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Abstract Luxembourg's implementation of a nationwide fare‐free public transport (FFPT) policy in March 2020 transformed the everyday work and imaginaries of railway accompaniment personnel who had previously been responsible for fare control. It also sparked debate among both workers and the public about the value of their work.
Sonja Faaren Ruud
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Politics of on‐demand food delivery: Policy design and the power of algorithms
Abstract In this article, we examine the politics of on‐demand food delivery using insights from the theory of social construction and policy design. On‐demand food delivery is a service built on algorithm‐based technology known for its precarity and physical risks for couriers.
Meng‐Hsuan Chou, Catherine Gomes
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Computational entrepreneurship: from economic complexities to interdisciplinary research [PDF]
The development of technology is unbelievably rapid. From limited local networks to high speed Internet, from crude computing machines to powerful semi-conductors, the world had changed drastically compared to just a few decades ago.
Vuong, Quan-Hoang
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The politics of Uber: Infrastructural power in the United States and Europe
Abstract Platform firms have been depicted as having structural and instrumental power and being able to prevail in regulatory battles. This article, in contrast, documents how they have often adapted to regulations and provide different services across locales. I show that platform firms have a specific type of power, infrastructural power, that stems
Jimena Valdez
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