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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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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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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.
Guilherme Nunes Pires +1 more
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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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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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The reorganization of app-based delivery workers' job: new-old forms of control in Arapiraca, Brazil
ProspectivaWith the rise of digital platform work, there is a challenge to understand the work process of app delivery workers. Given this, this research aims to analyze the reorganization of labor among delivery workers in Arapiraca, Brazil. This is a qualitative
Diego Souza
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, 2016 Uber gets entangled in many regulatory and legal hassles as it moves into new countries. It has to figure out how to sustain its lead in the heavily regulated and ever-changing car-sharing market. Moreover, despite a landslide market share, Uber operates at a loss.
Hoffman, Alan, Gold, Natalia
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Employment precariousness and the importance of the assessment of fatal occupational injuries on the Mortality Information System. [PDF]
Epidemiol Serv Saude, 2023 Drumond EF.
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Beneficium, 2019 The article is devoted to the consideration of the digital development of logistics. It gives an idea of the «physical Internet» and its implementation in the field of logistics; about the impact of this concept on the market and its structure.
Yuliya V. Lazich / Юлия В. Лазич +1 more
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