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  1. Platform work‐lives in the gig economy: Recentering work–family research

    Al James · 2024 · Gender, Work & Organization · 57 cites

    Abstract Crowdwork platforms have been widely celebrated as challenging gendered labor market inequalities through new digitally mediated possibilities for reconciling work, home, and family. This paper interrogates those claims and explores the wider implications of digital labor platforms for an expansive work–family research agenda stubbornly rooted in formal modes of employment in the “analogue” economy. Based on ethnographic research with women platform workers in the UK (using PeoplePerHour, Upwork, Freelancer, Fiverr, and Copify), the paper asks: what are women crowdworkers' lived experiences of integrating paid work and family relative to formal employment? And what

  3. Solving the ‘Gig-saw’? Collective Rights and Platform Work

    Michael Doherty, Valentina Franca · 2020 · Industrial Law Journal · 14 cites

    Abstract There are few topics in contemporary labour law scholarship that have generated more literature than work in the so-called ‘platform economy’. To date, much work has focussed on the question of defining the personal scope of the employment relationship and on the problems of using existing classifications of employment status in the context of work organised via platforms. This article seeks to address the much less-discussed issue of how collective bargaining may function in the ‘platform economy’, and the role of collective labour law actors, most notably the social partners. The article argues that, rather than focussing on individual employment status and litigati

  5. Constitutional Values in the Gig-Economy? Why Labor Law Fails at Platform Work, and What Can We Do about It?

    Zsolt Ződi, Bernát Török · 2021 · Societies · 7 cites

    Gig-work, or platform work, has been in the crosshairs of regulators since roughly the mid-2010s. The employment of an increasing number of platform workers raises a number of problems, however, there is no longer a consensus as to whether these problems are only the emergence of certain well-established labor law issues in a new guise, or completely new ones. To date, only one possible solution seems to have emerged, that of bringing platform work under the umbrella of labor law. This study argues, on the one hand, that platform work has a characteristic that was previously unknown in the world of labor relations (algorithmic and data-based work organization) and, on the other hand, that it

  6. Enhancing Work Engagement in the Gig Economy: Evidence from Platform Workers

    Yue Wen, Benfu Lv, Jie Liu · 2026 · Sustainability · 1 cite

    Work engagement is pivotal for service quality and the long-term viability of platform businesses, yet its micro-level drivers remain insufficiently understood in algorithmically managed gig work. Drawing on self-regulation, social exchange, organizational justice, and algorithmic governance perspectives, this study develops an integrative framework linking workers’ self-management, perceived organizational support, organizational justice, and perceived algorithmic control to work engagement. We surveyed 292 platform-based gig workers in China using an online questionnaire. Hierarchical regressions and robustness checks using structural equation models show that all four antecedents are posi

  7. The Gig Economy and Labor Market Restructuring: Platform Work, Worker Classification, and the Future of Employment Relations

    V. Basil Han · 2026 · Journal of Economic Insights and Research (JEIR)

    This study examines the growth, characteristics, and labor market implications of platform mediated gig work across 24 OECD countries from 2015 to 2025. Using administrative data, labor force surveys, and platform transaction records, we document that gig work has grown to represent 4.2% of total employment and 12.8% of labor income for participants. We find substantial heterogeneity in worker experiences: approximately 35% of gig workers use platforms as primary income sources with limited alternative opportunities, while 65% engage in platform work as supplementary income alongside traditional employment or education. Earnings analysis reveals that median hourly compensation after accounti

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