Commoditized Workers. Case Study Research on Labour Law Issues Arising from a Set of 'On-Demand/Gig Economy' Platforms

By Antonio Aloisi. 2016

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Conceptualizing the Gig Economy and Its Regulatory Problems (2020, positive): “The first solution, mainly advocated by the unions, is to consider gig workers as employees, based on the control that a platform exercises over its gig workers (Aloisi, 2015; De Stefano, 2015).”
The ‘gig economy’: employee, self-employed or the need for a special employment regulation? (2017, neutral): “Moreover, these companies’ revenues are not derived from access to their database, but instead from charging clients for the task (work) performed (Aloisi, 2016: 669).”
Algorithms at Work: The New Contested Terrain of Control (2020, neutral): “Through collective organizing, they have lobbied to implement legislative change, and in some cases have also started to sue companies—the ridesharing platformsUber andLyft and the cleaning platform Handy, for instance—for classifying them as contractors, but replacing them when they do not perform ”
“Is your gig any good?” Analysing job quality in the Australian platform-based food-delivery sector (2019, neutral): “Furthermore, in the gig economy the automation of task allocation and performance management has resulted in a shift of managerial responsibilities from humans to machines, resulting in forms of ‘algorithmic management’ (Aloisi, 2016).”