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Development and Change, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 484-509, May 2025.ABSTRACT As digital employment becomes increasingly significant, a number of legal cases have emerged centred on whether digital workers should be classified as independent partners or employees. Workers’ freedom in choosing whether and how long to work for an app is central to the argument by platform firms that they are mere technology providers to ...
Matteo Rizzo
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Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 868-886, March 2025.Abstract Digital platforms for Domestic Workers (DW) are widespread, entailing work management and employment challenges. In Chile, DW has inherited colonial and class dynamics that are still present. Besides, this role has shown a significant occupation rate where one out of 10 women is DW; from this, one of every three are migrants.
Natalie Rodríguez‐Covarrubias +1 more
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Cogent Business & Management, 2020 The increasing uberization of work has emerged as an intrinsic part of our digitalized society, allowing opportunities for unbridled success for global firms using gig work.
Umer Zaman +3 more
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Contextualizing Platform Labor
Revista Contracampo, 2020 Digital labor studies emerge in communication research in the early 2010s. Since then, the exponential increase in work and consumption on transportation and delivery platforms has led academics, activists and civil society to discuss phenomena called ...
Rafael Grohmann, Jack Qiu
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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Volume 95, Issue 4, Page 1197-1221, December 2024.Abstract Platform cooperatives, namely, businesses that sell goods or services primarily through a website, mobile app, or protocol and commit to the principles of democratic governance and shared ownership, have lately been proposed as a more sustainable, equitable and, under certain conditions, even efficient alternative to the organizational model ...
Pietro Ghirlanda, Vassil Kirov
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Territorialisation de la plateforme Airbnb
NetcomOver the past decade, digital platforms have had a significant impact on the way we perceive and practice cities. Airbnb is one such platform. In this article, we'll look at how the expansion of the Airbnb platform is impacting, from a socio-economic ...
Alexandre Grondeau, Gwenaëlle Dourthe
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 48, Issue 6, Page 1034-1054, November 2024.Abstract After their widespread legalization, ridehailing companies Uber and Lyft soon embarked on a new stage of their respective business models: the initiation of a wave of strategic partnerships with local and regional transit agencies across the North American continent.
Fabian Namberger
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R&D Management, Volume 54, Issue 5, Page 1104-1130, November 2024.This study explored the scientometrics and current dynamics of the area of sharing economy business models (SEBMs). Using bibliometric analysis, it examined a collection of 561 studies from the Web of Science and Scopus databases to detect the thematic evolution, strategy map, and emerging trends in SEBM literature as well as to forecast research ...
Carson Duan
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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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