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Assessing Social Sustainability in the Gig Economy
Sustainable Development Goal 8 to “Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for...
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Labour Policies for a Fairer Gig Economy
The chapter will consider both the current legislative situation and PLUS proposals in relation to platform labour regulation. While in the first...
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The Impact of Technological Progress on the Future of Work: Insights from a Survey on Alternative Employment Contracts in OECD Countries
Technology is changing how individuals work and the nature of the job contracts they take. New job market realities include gig work, working for...
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From a Sharing Economy to a Platform Economy: Public Values in Shared Mobility and Gig Work in the Netherlands
This chapter discusses the sharing economy in the Netherlands, focussing on shared mobility and gig work platforms. The Netherlands has been known as...
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Approaches to Managing Organizational and Non-organizational Stresses in the Gig Economy and Precarization of Labor Relations
Precarization is one of the most important trends in the modern development of the labor market both in Russia and abroad. At the same time, the...
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Platforms and Shared Economy: Precarity of Work or Building Agency?
The emergence of platforms and the associated idea of the shared economy have fostered a lot of research relating to the future of work. The question...
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Industrial Organisation, Employment and Labour Regulations: Understanding Recent Changes in India
The article takes stock, along with the key arguments that have animated labour regulation and deregulation debates (leading to the recent...
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Reluctantly independent: motivations for self-employed artistic work
Self-employment is much more frequent among artists and creative workers than other occupations. This has led to the emergence of the notion of the...
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The Prospect of Work from Home in the Public Sector
Work from home (WFH) simply refers to a working mode that enables employees to perform office-related tasks at home. This initiative is made possible...
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Trade Unions, Work and Resilience
This chapter gives an overview of the politics of workplace wellbeing, including resilience, and current critical debates about the use of resilience...
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Perceiving Platform Work as Decent Work? Views Regarding Working Conditions Among Platform Taxi Drivers in Tallinn
The global proliferation of neoliberalism, prioritising market primacy, privatisation, and deregulation, has impelled employers to pursue enhanced...
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Youth and Challenges in Contemporary World of Work in India
India has one of the largest youth populations in the world; her population aged 15–29 years increased from 26.6% of in 1991 to the projected figure...
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Individual Work Valuation in a Digital World—The Case of Personal Token’s Pricing
Personal tokens (specifically, utility tokens) can serve as a measure of work valuation. Valuing one’s work is usually based on three sources:...
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The role of unpaid domestic work in explaining the gender gap in the (monetary) value of leisure
The value of travel time savings (VTTS) representing the willingness to pay to reduce travel time, consists of two components: the value of...
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Social Care Work Matters
Australia’s new cash-for-care scheme for support and care for people with disability provides a unique and important opportunity to examine the...
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Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy: The Need for a Multi-faceted Approach
The recent international attention paid to the formalization of the informal economy finds reflection in ILO Recommendation No. 204 concerning the...
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Automation and the Future of Work in Emerging Economies: Issues, Evidence, and a Way Forward
There is a sizeable literature that has emerged in recent years on the impact of automation on jobs and livelihoods. This is being ushered in by new...
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Regulating Work, Constructing Workers
Many gaps and deficiencies in standards and protections in Australia’s employment regulation reflect and reinforce historically strong gendered norms...
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Changing Course Towards Decent Work
Social care policy and employment regulation are both significant in producing the conditions for individualised risk for social care workers....
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