This article investigates the effects of the Spanish initiative to deploy a universal
presumption of employment relationship for all platform couriers (Ley Rider). Drawing from …

The expanding scale and scope of digital platforms in our lives seem undeniable as they
restructure commerce, communication, work, finance, popular culture, and private and public …

Research on platform work has primarily focused on analyzing how algorithmic
management influences working conditions by empowering platforms to govern digitally …

The proliferation of ride-hailing platforms in the last decade has been challenged by
workers' mobilization around the world. In order to complement the existing research on …

The conditions of gig workers, such as platform drivers, differ sharply between countries in
central and peripheral capitalism. Working conditions with long working hours, low incomes …

The COVID-19 crisis highlighted the need for better access to unemployment insurance,
particularly for solo self-employed workers. Traditionally seen as entrepreneurs bearing their …

It has been argued that digital platform firms leverage their position at spatial bottlenecks in
such a fashion so as to allow operations in local labour markets while at the same time …

Research on collective organisation of migrant platform workers is mostly concerned with
ride-hailing and delivery logistics, where explicit forms of collective action have been visible …

This paper examines the pivot that took place during the COVID-19 pandemic from ride
hailing to food hailing. In 2020, the global spread of COVID-19 challenged urban life, raising …

When digital ride-hailing platforms first hit the streets of Kampala in the mid-2010s, there
were high hopes that the Ugandan capital's vast workforce of informal moto-taxi operators …