The rise of the "just-in-time workforce": on-demand work, crowdwork and labour protection in the "gig-economy"

By Valerio De Stefano. 2015

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Subfields: Marketing, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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“Is your gig any good?” Analysing job quality in the Australian platform-based food-delivery sector (2019, background): “The gig economy has been loosely described as the ‘platform’, ‘sharing’, ‘crowd-based’, ‘on-demand’ or ‘gig’ economy (De Stefano, 2016; Sundararajan, 2016).”
Between autonomy and control: Strategies of arbitrage in the “on-demand” economy (2018, neutral): “From this perspective, ondemand companies are seen merely to disaggregate the hierarchies of traditional urban service sector firms thanks to the technological affordances of the smartphone, such as location-based services and notification delivery (De Stefano, 2016).”
Circular futures: What Will They Look Like? (2020, background): “…the demand side, this scenario can be associated with various concepts such as the “sharing economy” (Belk, 2014; Frenken and Schor, 2017), the “gig economy” (De Stefano, 2015), “collaborative consumption” (Bostman and Rogers, 2010) or the “access economy” (Bardhi and Eckhardt, 2012; Rifkin, 2000).”
Regulating the Sharing Economy: Introduction to the Special Issue (2016, background): “Consequently regulation may be desirable to protect workers rights and well-being (De Stefano, 2016).”
The ‘gig economy’: employee, self-employed or the need for a special employment regulation? (2017, neutral): “As a result, in the absence of the application of employment law protection, especially the minimum wage and collective wage agreements, a client can obtain a service much cheaper than the one provided by traditional organisations (De Stefano, 2016).”
Income Security in the On-Demand Economy: Findings and Policy Lessons from a Survey of Crowdworkers (2016, background): “2 For a discussion of the debate on creating an intermediate category, see De Stefano (2016).”
Algorithms at Work: The New Contested Terrain of Control (2020, background): “…better follow managerial directives Ajunwa & Greene (2019), Aneesh (2009), Beunza & Millo (2015), Borch & Lange (2016), Cherry & Aloisi (2018), De Stefano (2015), Ha-Thuc et al. (2016), Irani (2015), Jackson (2019), Jarrahi et al. (2019), Kittur et al. (2011, 2013), Lange et al. (2016), Lee et…”
Digital Nomads Employment in the Online Gig Economy (2018, background): “This encourages freelancers to work below market rate, or even for free, in order to have more gigs – and ratings – on one’s professional profile (De Stefano 2016: 8; Luce 2017; Gandini 2016a, Gandini 2016b; Gandini and Beraldo 2016).”
Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy (2018, positive): “…the gig economy can be situated within this context and has thus been seen as a threat to the closed employment relations which dominated the post-war period; being equated with the fragmentation, casualisation and precarisation of work in high-income countries (De Stefano, 2016; Standing, 2016).”
Defining the Sharing Economy for Sustainability (2019, background): “While an individual may provide a service as a result of idling time and acquired (owned) knowledge, we argue that these types of exchanges are better described by the literature pertaining to the gig economy [140] and do not embody the purported sustainability motivations described in our sample.”
Creative and cultural work without filters: Covid-19 and exposed precarity in the creative economy (2020, background): “…conditions have affected workers from two opposite sides of the labour market: on one side low-paid unskilled workers (such as cleaners, careers, delivery drivers) are all now part of the gig economy (De Stefano, 2015); on the other the highly skilled workforce (DCMS 2016) of the creative economy.”
Über-Alienated: Powerless and Alone in the Gig Economy (2021, background): “…isolation, powerlessness, worker autonomy The growth of flexible, short-term contracts and freelance work—signature features of the gig economy—has sparked debate about the implications of these temporary work arrangements for worker autonomy and well-being (De Stefano, 2016; Sundararajan, 2016).”
Between a rock and a hard place: Freedom, flexibility, precarity and vulnerability in the gig economy in Africa (2020, positive): “It is, therefore, not surprising that the emergence of the gig economy in rich countries is associated with the casualization and precarization of work (De Stefano, 2016).”