At your service: the mobilities, rhythms and everyday lives of migrant labour in the gig economy

M Andersen, K Zampoukos, M Spanger… - Journal of ethnic and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This introduction presents a framework for the contributions to the special issue At Your
Service: The Mobilities, Rhythms and Everyday Lives of Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy …

The work of waiting: migrant labour in the fulfillment city

K Attoh, KJ Wells, D Cullen - Journal of Ethnic and Migration …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Drawing on research conducted with platform delivery workers in Washington DC, this paper
builds on the work of scholars committed to both describing and challenging the degrading …

Co-Designing Alternatives for the Future of Gig Worker Well-Being: Navigating Multi-Stakeholder Incentives and Preferences

J Hsieh, M Karger, L Zagal, H Zhu - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Gig workers, and the products and services they provide, play an increasingly ubiquitous
role in our daily lives. But despite growing evidence suggesting that worker well-being in gig …

Migrant workers within the platform assemblage: entwined temporalities of gig work and the border regime

O Maury, O Hakala, L Näre - Journal of Ethnic and Migration …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The temporal structuring of migrant gig workers' work and lives has been insufficiently
addressed in research. Drawing on multi-sited onlineoffline methodologies, including …

The fragmented labor power composition of gig workers: Entrepreneurial tendency and the heterogeneous production of difference

O Maury - Critical Sociology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The literature on digital labor platforms requires a focus beyond techno-utopianism,
foregrounding the role of living labor that materially sustains the fantasies of convenience …

Evaluating the construction of a digital supervision platform for digital trade systems: a multilateral perspective

C Zhang, W Zeng - Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2023 - Springer
The rapid evolution of digital trade has initiated a transformation in global trade regulations,
leading to a fragmented and diversified landscape of international multilateral rules in digital …

What's Talent Got to Do with It? The Collective Labourer and the Rise of Barcelona's Digital Economy

G Charnock, R Ribera‐Fumaz - Antipode, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article explains the recent rise to prominence of Barcelona's digital economy, and,
specifically, the role played by the city's “talent”. After developing a Marxian approach, we …

Impact of regulatory and other changes on Australian unions' strategies and campaigns, 2023–2024

M Jerrard, GJ Bamber… - Journal of Industrial …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article reviews the challenges and opportunities facing Australian trade unions in 2023–
2024. It covers industry challenges for specific unions and the changes introduced by the …

The triangular relationship in platform gig work: Consumers, platform beneficence and worker vulnerability

J Healy, A Pekarek - New Technology, Work and Employment, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Platform gig work is created and contested in dynamic, triangular relationships between
platforms, workers, and consumers. Compared with the first two groups, however, evidence …

Worker Data Collectives as a means to Improve Accountability, Combat Surveillance and Reduce Inequalities

J Hsieh, A Zhang, S Kim, VN Rao, S Dalal… - … Publication of the 2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Platform-based laborers face unprecedented challenges and working conditions that result
from algorithmic opacity, insufficient data transparency, and unclear policies and …