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Gamification, control and resistance in the delivery app courier sector in Brazil: the iFood case
Sociología del TrabajoThis paper is intended to clarify the new forms of labor organization and resistance on the part of digital platform workers, particularly delivery app motorcyclists in Brasília, the Federal District of Brazil.
Ricardo Colturato Festi
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Bargaining in the (Murky) Shadow of Arbitration [PDF]
, 2019 Disputing parties who are unable to settle their differences will end up before an adjudicator (typically a judge or jury) who will decide their dispute for them.
Gross, Jill I.
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Uber for tractors? Opportunities and challenges of digital tools for tractor hire in India and Nigeria [PDF]
, 2020 Agricultural mechanization can contribute to agricultural transformation. However, there is a need to find institutional solutions allowing smallholder farmers, who play a key role in agricultural development, to access tractors even though they cannot ...
Anidi, Oluwakayode +5 more
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Serf‐ing the Net: Contrasting Uber Workers in the United Kingdom With Uber Neo‐Villeins in Ontario
Industrial Relations Journal, Volume 56, Issue 5, Page 353-362, September 2025.ABSTRACT We illustrate the exploitation in the relationship between Uber and its drivers by aligning their work with the characteristics of neo‐villeiny. Two different legal developments in response to irregulation (or the lack of effective regulation) in similar institutional contexts emerge.
Geraint Harvey +2 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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Collective strategies of resistance to the precarious labour conditions in the digital platform economy: the case of Riders x Derechos [PDF]
, 2023 The chapter analyses the case of a Spanish self-organization collective of riders that lobbied for the regularization of their initial fraudulent status as ‘false self-employed’.
Iglesias Onofrio, Marcela Yasmín
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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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How to design for persistence and retention in MOOCs? [PDF]
, 2016 Design of educational interventions is typically carried out following a design cycle involving phases of investigation, conceptualization, prototyping, implementation, execution and evaluation.
Brasher, Andrew +2 more
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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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