Workers without employers: shadow corporations and the rise of the gig economy

By G. Friedman. 2014

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Subfields: Finance, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Examining Crowd Work and Gig Work Through the Historical Lens of Piecework (2017, methodology): “In this paper we will use the term on–demand labor, to capture this pair of related phenomena: first, crowd work [83], on platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) and other sites of (predominantly) information work; and second, gig work [48, 118], often as platforms for one–off jobs, like driv”
Can You Gig It? An Empirical Examination of the Gig Economy and Entrepreneurial Activity (2018, unknown): “…along a number of fronts, ranging from platform design and user response (Fradkin 2013, Fradkin et al. 2014), to the effect on labor movements (Friedman 2014, Milkman and Ott 2014), to broader economic and societal effects (Edelman and Luca 2014, Greenwood and Wattal 2015, Zervas et al. 2015).”
Creative and cultural work without filters: Covid-19 and exposed precarity in the creative economy (2020, background): “The second, more recent, is connected with patterns of neoliberalism and precarization of work which have spread from CCW in the early 2000s to become staples of our current gig economy (Friedman, 2014).”
Understanding platform business models: A mixed methods study of marketplaces (2017, background): “…lack a clear understanding about different types of marketplace business models, findings in related research streams – including research on the ‘sharing economy’ (Möhlmann, 2015; Sundararajan, 2016; Zervas et al., 2013) or ‘gig economy’ (Friedman, 2014) – remains largely unconnected and isolated.”
Labour process theory and the gig economy (2018, background): “…the establishment of a capital-labour relationship between a worker and a digital platform, that mediates workers’ supply and consumer or professional demand for the completion of a small task or ‘gig’ and operates at once as a market intermediary and a ‘shadow employer’ (Friedman, 2014).”
Sharers and sellers: A multi-group examination of gig economy workers' perceptions (2019, background): “Most of the prior research examining contract workers has been focused in management and is only tangentially related to the current research (Friedman, 2014; Kuhn, 2016).”
Capturing the dynamics of the sharing economy: Institutional research on the plural forms and practices of sharing economy organizations (2017, background): “The possibility that workers can be hired virtually on the spot and then immediately released inspired the label “gig economy” (Friedman, 2014).”
Promises and paradoxes of the sharing economy: An organizing framework (2017, background): “To add to the confusion, many neighbouring concepts have been proposed including platform capitalism, on-demand (Cockayne, 2016) or gig economy (Friedman, 2014; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.07.006 ⁎ Corresponding author.”
Digital Disruption beyond Uber and Airbnb—Tracking the long tail of the sharing economy (2020, background): “…subject has shown that sharing-economy platforms such as Uber in the personal transportation sector and Airbnb in the accommodation sector have invoked processes of creative destruction (Matzler et al., 2015) while also potentially transforming the labor market (Friedman, 2014; Sundararajan, 2016).”
Working on my own: Measuring the challenges of gig work (2021, background): “Gig work is as varied as organizational work (Friedman, 2014; Katz and Krueger, 2019; Kuhn, 2016), with some gig workers engaging primarily in lower skilled, task-based work (such as ridesharing or microwork; Guda and Subramanian, 2019; Kost et al., 2018; Veen et al., 2020; Wong et al., 2020) and…”
Conceptualizing the Gig Economy and Its Regulatory Problems (2020, background): “…emphasize that the supply of labor in the gig economy concerns “ individuals, ” “ taskers, ” “ freelancers, ” “ self ‐ employed, ” “ independent workers, ” or “ independent contractors ” rather than employees (Friedman, 2014; Kuhn & Maleki, 2017; Meijerink & Keegan, 2019; Prassl & Risak, 2015).”
The organisation and experience of work in the gig economy (2019, background): “Formost, earnings are less than those of their peers in traditional work (Friedman, 2014) with long working hours (Carmody and Fortuin, 2019; Graham and Anwar, 2018).”