This article critically evaluates the burgeoning work on labour agency in human geography over the past decade. We review efforts to distinguish varied forms of labour agency and …
Digitalized independent workers, known as gig workers, have been shown to work under high-pressure, with a lack of autonomy, a lack of feedback and perceived competence, and …
L Hornuf, D Vrankar - Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2022 - Springer
In the past decade, crowdworking on online labor market platforms has become an important source of income for a growing number of people worldwide. This development …
A Aguilera, L Dablanc, C Krier, N Louvet - European Transport Research …, 2022 - Springer
Background Platform-based fast delivery is developing rapidly in many cities across the world, especially in the food sector. Yet knowledge about the characteristics and the activity …
B Churchill - New Technology, Work and Employment, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Progress towards pay equity between men and women in the Australian economy stalled during the COVID‐19 pandemic, highlighting once again the gendered impact of the …
How do workers conceptualize a platform's algorithm and adjust their practices to its logic? To pursue this question, we draw on an ethnography of Grab, the leading rideshare platform …
K Medappa - Journal of South Asian Development, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents an ethnographic account of the support and mutual aid mechanisms evolved by members of an app-based cab drivers union in Karnataka during the recurrent …
C Krier, L Dablanc, A Aguiléra, N Louvet - Case Studies on Transport …, 2022 - Elsevier
The gig economy and digital platforms have developed in an exponential way over the past few years. In large cities, instant on-demand meal delivery has gained tremendous …
Q Wang, B Churchill - Journal of Sociology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study explores the issue of workplace safety among food-delivery workers who use platforms like UberEATS and Deliveroo to secure work. Despite the high exposure to …