A Modern Guide To Labour and the Platform Economy

Edited by Jan Drahokoupil and Kurt Vandaele

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Abstract: Providing an insightful analysis of the key issues and significant trends relating to labour within the platform economy, this Modern Guide considers the existing comparative evidence covering all world regions. It also provides an in-depth look at digital labour platforms in their historical, economic and geographical contexts.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Innovations and Technology; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
ISBN: 9781788975094
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: Janus meets Proteus in the platform economy , pp 1-31

Jan Drahokoupil and Kurt Vandaele

Ch 2 The business models of labour platforms: Creating an uncertain future , pp 33-48

Jan Drahokoupil

Ch 3 Moving on, out or up: The externalization of work to B2B platforms , pp 49-65

Pamela Meil and Mehtap Akgüç

Ch 4 Measuring the platform economy: Different approaches to estimating the size of the online platform workforce , pp 66-80

Agnieszka Piasna

Ch 5 A historical perspective on the drivers of digital labour platforms , pp 81-95

Gérard Valenduc

Ch 6 The platform economy at the forefront of a changing world of work: Implications for occupational health and safety , pp 96-111

Pierre Bérastégui and Sacha Garben

Ch 7 How place and space matter to union organizing in the platform economy , pp 112-127

Benjamin Herr, Philip Schörpf and Jörg Flecker

Ch 8 Embedding platforms in contemporary labour law , pp 129-144

Valerio De Stefano and Mathias Wouters

Ch 9 The regulation of platform work in the European Union: Mapping the challenges , pp 145-161

Sacha Garben

Ch 10 Workers, platforms and the state: The struggle over digital labour platform regulation , pp 162-176

Sai Englert, Mark Graham, Sandra Fredman, Darcy du Toit, Adam Badger, Richard Heeks and Jean-Paul Van Belle

Ch 11 Trade union responses to platform work: An evolving tension between mainstream and grassroots approaches , pp 177-192

Simon Joyce and Mark Stuart

Ch 12 The uneven potential of online platform work for human development at the global margins , pp 194-208

Mark Graham, Vili Lehdonvirta, Alex J. Wood, Helena Barnard, Isis Hjorth and David Peter Simon

Ch 13 From outsourcing to crowdsourcing: Assessing the implications for Indian workers of different outsourcing strategies , pp 209-224

Janine Berg, Uma Rani and Nora Gobel

Ch 14 The geographic and linguistic variety of online labour markets: The cases of Russia and Ukraine , pp 225-240

Mariya Aleksynska, Andrey Shevchuk and Denis Strebkov

Ch 15 Aliada and Alia: Contrasting for-profit and non-profit platforms for domestic work in Mexico and the United States , pp 242-257

Andrea Santiago Páramo and Carlos Piñeyro Nelson

Ch 16 The role of worker collectives among app-based food delivery couriers in France, Germany and Norway: All the same or different? , pp 258-273

Kristin Jesnes, Denis Neumann, Vera Trappmann and Pauline de Becdelièvre

Ch 17 The pitfalls and promises of successfully organizing Foodora couriers in Toronto , pp 274-289

Raoul Gebert

Ch 18 Labour management and resistance among platform-based food delivery couriers in Beijing , pp 290-307

Jack Linchuan Qiu, Ping Sun and Julie Chen

Ch 19 Struggles over the power and meaning of digital labour platforms: A comparison of the Vienna, Berlin, New York and Los Angeles taxi markets , pp 308-322

Hannah Johnston and Susanne Pernicka

Ch 20 Passenger transport in Australia: Injury compensation, public policy and the health pandemic , pp 323-337

David Peetz

Ch 21 Institutional experimentation and the challenges of platform labour , pp 339-349

Maria Figueroa

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