A5060109657- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Sharing Economy and Platforms
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Taxation and Compliance Studies
- Legal and Labor Studies
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Legal and Policy Issues
- European Law and Migration
- Discrimination and Equality Law
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Labor Law and Work Dynamics
- Banking, Crisis Management, COVID-19 Impact
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
University of Oxford
2020-2025
National Postdoctoral Association
2022
Northeastern University
2022
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
2022
Data Archiving Networked Services (DANS)
2022
Technische Universität Berlin
2022
Internet Society
2021-2022
Family Beginnings
2022
University of Glasgow
2020
University of Edinburgh
2017
The ride-hailing giant Uber has long circumvented labour regulations and commodified its drivers’ by existing at the conjuncture of multiple geographies – being simultaneously embedded disembedded from places where it operates. In this commentary, we argue that COVID-19 pandemic destabilised Uber’s ‘conjunctural’ existence forced company to become more in locations operates, bringing about a perhaps temporary turn towards decommodification labour.
Abstract Drawing on a series of interviews with key actors including representatives the main trade unions, this paper considers response unions in UK to emergence and growth platform work. Comparing partly different strategies adopted by traditional alternative respect representation workers’ interests, it demonstrates that unions’ choices have been shaped characteristics resources themselves, prevailing political conditions and, perhaps above all, restrictive legal framework excludes many...
In recent years, many countries have witnessed a progressive commodification of domestic and care services. Service provision has become increasingly diversified, the sector also been part general trend ‘platformisation’, as both local multinational digital labour platforms (DLPs) entered market. Despite its growing prominence, platformisation work remained relatively under-researched. This symposium aims to provide global perspective on evolving landscape platform-mediated work, drawing...
In platform-mediated sectors such as ride-hailing, delivery, care work and cloudwork, gig workers often lack essential employment protections minimum wage social security. Misclassification of workers, opaque algorithms, exploitation legal loopholes lobbying by platforms against protective legislation further exacerbates inequalities discrimination. The Fairwork project at the University Oxford WZB Berlin, in collaboration with a global network partners, aims to improve conditions platform...
Abstract Digital labour platforms have been widely promoted as a solution to the unemployment crisis sparked by COVID‐19 pandemic. However, pandemic has also highlighted vulnerability of gig workers when cast essential workers. This article examines policies 191 in 43 countries understand how shifted conventions economy. Using typology “fair platform work”, authors identify areas progress worker protection but significant shortfalls, including entrenchment precarious work leverage...
Critical research into the gig economy frequently relies on using platform interfaces, mobile applications or websites, as intermediaries to contact and recruit participants. Yet, these methods are accompanied by significant ethical implications that rarely considered. In this article, we look at organisational features of interfaces for explore ways in which, through their intensive knowledge about users, they present additional challenges researchers’ abilities (a) conduct independent –...
Abstract The Fairwork Project is an international action-research project that currently operates in over 20 countries. focuses on working conditions the platform economy, order to develop ‘fairness ratings’ for digital labour platforms. With respect Germany, evaluated offered by ten platforms, scoring them against principles and producing a national league table. We found even highly regulated market context like German one, workers experience precarity insecurity have limited access...
Platform-mediated work is a source of livelihood for millions workers worldwide. However, because platforms typically classify as ‘independent contractors’, those are generally excluded from the scope labor rights. This has corrosive effect on working standards platform workers, creating need an international regulatory framework to prevent race bottom. To address this situation, article proposes outline International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention regulation going beyond...
In the German public debate, platform work and crowdwork have become epitome of dark side digital transformation working world. Although Germany is marked by a high density labour regulations, those do not necessarily translate into/create fair conditions for workers in country. At first glance, historical legacy strong social partnership between employers' workers' organisations restrictiveness law mean present powerful regulatory tools to thwart precarity strengthen rights economy....
This panel brings together scholars whose work seeks to tame platform capitalism understanding how the lives of workers are affected by digital platforms. Research on labor has been mostly done in global north, as well relation platforms like Uber or Amazon (Rosenblat 2019; Scholz 2016). Thus, panelists, moreover, explore can be improved within economy analyzing workers’ subjectivities and impact technologies job quality. To achieve this, this from north south countries that will map...