Stripping back the mask: Working conditions on digital labour platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic
Autor: | Howson, Kelle, Ustek-Spilda, Funda, Bertolini, Alessio, Heeks, Richard, Ferrari, Fabian, Katta, Srujana, Cole, Matthew, Aguera Reneses, Pablo, Salem, Nancy, Sutcliffe, David, Steward, Shelly, Graham, Mark, LS Universiteitshoogleraar, ICON - Media and Performance Studies |
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Přispěvatelé: | LS Universiteitshoogleraar, ICON - Media and Performance Studies |
Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management labour rights Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Economic policy Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject digital labour platforms precarious work Leverage (negotiation) COVID‐19 Management of Technology and Innovation Pandemic Gig economy media_common precarious employment working conditions gig economy COVID-19 Original Articles future of work Work (electrical) Unemployment Precarious work Original Article Business |
Zdroj: | International Labour Review International Labour Review, 161(3), 413. Wiley-Blackwell |
ISSN: | 0020-7780 |
Popis: | Digital labour platforms have been widely promoted as a solution to the unemployment crisis sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the pandemic has also highlighted the harms to gig workers-who are exposed either to income loss, or to infection while carrying out essential work, but excluded from labour protections. We examine the COVID-19 policies of 191 platforms in 43 countries to understand how the crisis has shifted the conventions of the gig economy. Using a typology of "fair platform work" we report the introduction of some positive worker protections, but also significant shortfalls, including entrenchment of precarious work as platforms leverage the opportunities arising from the crisis. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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