Serf‐ing the Net: Contrasting Uber Workers in the United Kingdom With Uber Neo‐Villeins in Ontario

Geraint Harvey, Naveena Prakasam and Refat Shakirzhanov

Industrial Relations Journal, 2025, vol. 56, issue 5, 353-362

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. While Uber drivers in the United Kingdom now have worker status, dysregulation (by which we mean regulation that exacerbates the problem it seeks to resolve) in Ontario has established neo‐villeiny in law.

Date: 2025
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