The US-based service company Uber offers platformbased transportation services in more
than 70 countries. To this end, the company manages a global network of around 3.5 million …

This article contrasts two reform proposals articulated in recent debates about how to
democratize the digital economy: data-owning democracy and digital socialism. A data …

Automated algorithms are silently making crucial decisions about our lives, but most of the
time we have little understanding of how they work. To counter this hidden influence, there …

A recent interpretation of artificial intelligence (AI)(Floridi,) suggests that the implementation
of AI demands the investigation of the binding conditions that make it possible to build and …

Employment practices in the gig economy have routinely been defended through the
language of individual freedom. Indeed, this particular model of on-demand employment is …

Care work is always already unequal. It involves looking after others' physical,
psychological, emotional, and developmental needs. Paid care work tends to be conducted …

The knowledge that workers have of the systems they work under is an outcome of strategic
choices by platforms and by workers themselves. Based on three initiatives undertaken by …

With the promise of autonomy, flexibility, and “being your own boss” the gig economy is
growing to be one of the most important economic and social developments of our time. This …

In this paper, I approach the power of digital platforms by using the republican concept of
domination. More specifically, I argue that the traditional, agent-relative interpretation of …

Recent years have witnessed the rise of digital platforms that allow economic agents to
arrange ever more fine‐grained contracts. This article zooms in on labour‐based platforms …