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The use of “gamification” in stock trading and other apps raises new legal challenges. Existing legal tools should be adapted to meet these challenges.
A trial in France revealed how the platform’s algorithm established a subordination relationship between riders and the firm. Could we be witnessing the beginning of the end of “uberisation”?
A recent study highlights the precarious world of rideshare and delivery drivers during the pandemic, and their struggle to be heard as non-unionised contractors.
Feudalism has been replaced by capitalism, and the new villeiny — or neo-villeiny — has emerged to reflect a relationship between a worker and an organization.
New legislation could strengthen the social contract between workers and platforms.
Gig workers are more stressed than other types of workers. Two experts explain coping strategies that are likely to help, and which to avoid.
If you catch COVID-19 at work in Australia, you do have rights to leave and compensation, depending on your employment status
Strip away the sexy marketing and what you have is just another digital platform shifting legal responsibilities and risks.
As the gig economy and precarious work become more prevalent, there’s a growing need for some form of universal income support to help these workers.
Gig work is entering almost every industry and changing the relationship between workers, employers, service providers and customers. But gig workers face new and unique challenges.
Taxi drivers and Uber drivers perform the same work, but Uber’s categorization as a tech company has contributed to the historical stigma against taxi drivers.
A rise in contract and gig work in professional and creative fields is affecting steady employment. Research shows that to maintain a career in these fields, a worker needs to consider family.
The British Supreme Court ruling in favour of Uber drivers offers some hope that gig workers, many of them immigrants, might finally be given basic rights. But there’s still lots of work to do.
Freelancers who have lost work during the COVID-19 crisis can take steps to ensure they have a successful long-term career in the post-pandemic period.
Proposition 22 keeps workers for app-based companies like Uber and Lyft classified as independent contractors, but it also reveals deeper problems with contemporary labour markets.
The debate over how to classify gig workers pits flexibility against the higher incomes and benefits that come with being classified as an employee.
Workers say they love the freedom of platforms like Uber and TaskRabbit but find it hard to earn a livable wage. Cooperatives that give worker-owners a voice in how they are run offer a solution.
With the recession exposing more workers to the vagaries of gig work, it’s more urgent than ever to close the legal loopholes that deny workers employment rights.
Delivery workers and others who ensure most people don’t have to go outside for essential goods are creating what economic theorists call an uncompensated ‘positive externality.’
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer - Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney
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Senior lecturer, The University of Western Australia
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Associate professor, Human Resources & Management, McMaster University
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Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Manitoba
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Professor of Sociology, Boston College
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Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organization, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Michael and Susan Jandernoa Professor of Management and Organizations, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD candidate, Industrial Relations and Human Resources, University of Toronto
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Assistant Professor of Business & Society, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor of HR and Management, McMaster University
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Assistant Professor, Organizational Behaviour, University of The Fraser Valley
