What do platforms do? Understanding the gig economy

S Vallas, JB Schor - Annual review of sociology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its
consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the …

Workers' voice in platform labour: an overview

H Heiland - 2020 - econstor.eu
This study documents various forms of worker representation and attempts to establish them
in platform labour in Europe. Different types of fragmentation of platform workers are …

Dependence and precarity in the platform economy

JB Schor, W Attwood-Charles, M Cansoy… - Theory and Society, 2020 - Springer
The rapid growth of Uber and analogous platform companies has led to considerable
scholarly interest in the phenomenon of platform labor. Scholars have taken two main …

Mobile apps use and WOM in the food delivery sector: the role of planned behavior, perceived security and customer lifestyle compatibility

D Belanche, M Flavián, A Pérez-Rueda - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
This research examines the phenomenon of food delivery services from the mobile app
user's perspective and how consumers' lifestyles are changing because of the convenience …

[HTML][HTML] The feasibility of platform cooperatives in the gig economy

DJ Bunders, M Arets, K Frenken, T De Moor - Journal of Co-Operative …, 2022 - Elsevier
In view of the precarity and economic dependency of gig workers, platform cooperatives
come into the picture as alternatives to investor-owned platforms. We develop a taxonomy of …

The platform economy in Europe: Results from the second ETUI Internet and Platform Work Survey

A Piasna, W Zwysen, J Drahokoupil - 2022 - econstor.eu
This paper presents some of the key insights from the second wave of the ETUI Internet and
Platform Work Survey (ETUI IPWS) conducted in 14 member states of the European Union …

The role of customers in the gig economy: how perceptions of working conditions and service quality influence the use and recommendation of food delivery services

D Belanche, LV Casaló, C Flavián, A Pérez-Rueda - Service Business, 2021 - Springer
This research examines how customers' perceptions about controversial labor practices of
food delivery platforms may affect their intentions to use and recommend these services …

Embedded reproduction in platform data work

J Posada - Information, Communication & Society, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper focuses on the experiences of Latin American data workers who annotate data
for machine learning algorithms through labor platforms. It introduces the notion of …

[图书][B] Negotiating our way up: Collective bargaining in a changing world of work

S Cazes, A Garnero, S Martin - 2019 - voced.edu.au
Collective bargaining and workers' voice are often discussed in the past rather than in the
future tense, but can they play a role in the context of a rapidly changing world of work? This …

Connecting at the edge: Cycles of commodification and labour control within food delivery platform work in Belgium

M Franke, V Pulignano - New Technology, Work and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we examine how commodification and labour control unfold within a digital
labour platform, focusing on the connections between the platform, its users and workers …