Book review: Humans as a Service. The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy
By Marco Biasi. European Journal of Social Security, 2018
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has been hailed as a ‘sharing’ revolution, enabling ‘micro-entrepreneurs’ to enjoy greater autonomy and flexibility in taking on ‘gigs’, ‘rides’, or ‘tasks’, while customers benefit from the ease, convenience, and affordability of ‘work on demand’. Is this the future of work? What are the benefits and challenges of crowdsourced work? Is the gig economy fundamentally different to existing models of work and should it be kept outside the scope of employment law, as many platforms claim?
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Citations in the corpus
- Conceptualizing the Gig Economy and Its Regulatory Problems (2020, background): “A question at the center of contemporary legal debates is whether gig workers are to be considered independent contractors or employees (Aloisi, 2015; De Stefano, 2015; Prassl & Risak, 2015; Prassl, 2018; Taylor et al., 2017).”
- From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China (2021, unknown): “The resurgence of contingent work in the gig economy leads to a legal battle surrounding the employment classification of the platform workers (Prassl, 2018).”