Capitalism
• Gig Work

References for Theme: Gig Work

• Alkhatib, Ali; Bernstein, Michael S; Levi, Margaret
• "Examining Crowd Work and Gig Work Through The Historical Lens of Piecework" (2017)

• Barnes, Andrew
• The 4 Day Week: How the Flexible Work Revolution Can Increase Productivity, Profitability and Well-being, and Create a Sustainable Future (2020)

• Bearson, Dafna; Kenney, Martin; Zysman, John
• "Measuring the Impacts of Labor in the Platform Economy: New Work Created, Old Work Reorganized, and Value Creation Reconfigured" (2019)

• Berger, Thor; Frey, Carl Benedikt; Levin, Guy; Danda, Santosh Rao
• "Uber happy? Work and well-being in the ‘Gig Economy’" (2019)

  (p.432) In the United Kingdom, the pronounced increase in self-employment, around theturn of the century, has more recently been accompanied by the rise of so-called ‘gigwork’. In particular, the spread of Uber – often hailed as the flagship of the gig economy – has given rise to a spirited debate. On the one hand, it has been argued thatUber extends the opportunity to become a ‘micro-entrepreneur’ to groups often marginalized in the traditional labour market. By giving individuals full autonomy over workingtime, it allows drivers to achieve work–life balance and provides opportunities to earnadditional income when needed. On the other, in...

• "Uber happy? Work and well-being in the ‘Gig Economy’" (2019)

  (p.467) The preference for flexible work expressed by Uber drivers, which we find tobe correlated with their SWB, suggests that evaluations of the gig economy preferablyshould go beyond monetary metrics. Notably, an important role of non-monetary factors also extends to more traditional work arrangements. Indeed, the latest British SocialAttitudes survey shows that less than half feel that work is only about monetary compensation, and the importance people attach to income has been falling in recent years.Thus, happiness economics seemingly has an important role to play in the context ofevaluating workers’ welfare in the future of work.

• "Uber happy? Work and well-being in the ‘Gig Economy’" (2019)

• Campbell, Iain; Price, Robin
• "Precarious work and precarious workers: Towards an improved conceptualisation" (2016)

  (p.316) The underlying issue explored here concerns the implications of precarious work forindividual workers – their physical, mental and social well-being and also, more broadly,their agency and the way in which they integrate paid work into other domains of sociallife. To what extent is the precariousness of work transmitted to the worker? This difficult but important area requires careful conceptualisation in order to extend research onprecarious work and develop policies to combat its effects.

• "Precarious work and precarious workers: Towards an improved conceptualisation" (2016)

• Chen, Julie Yujie
• "Thrown under the bus and outrunning it! The logic of Didi and taxi drivers’ labour and activism in the on-demand economy" (2018)

• Chen, M Keith; Chevalier, Judith A; Rossi, Peter E; Oehlsen, Emily
• "The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers" (2019)

• Codagnone, Cristiano; Abadie, Fabienne; Biagi, Federico
• "The future of work in the ‘sharing economy’" (2016)

• Fayard, Anne-Laure
• "Notes on the Meaning of Work: Labor, Work, and Action in the 21st Century" (2021)

  (p.217) Going back to Arendt’s suggestion to “think what we are doing” , I propose to do just that to make sense of the changing nature of “work,” to study what we are doing. Considering whether the activities people engaged in are work or not will allow us to unpack the social and political implications of the emerging activities, new organizational arrangements, and sociotechnical practices they include.

• "Notes on the Meaning of Work: Labor, Work, and Action in the 21st Century" (2021)

• Graham, Mark; Hjorth, Isis; Lehdonvirta, Vili
• "Digital Labour and Development: Impacts of Global Digital Labour Platforms and the Gig Economy on Worker Livelihoods" (2017)

• Ioannides, Dimitri; Gyimóthy, Szilvia; James, Laura
• "From Liminal Labor to Decent Work: A Human-Centered Perspective on Sustainable Tourism Employment" (2021)

• Kuhn, Kristine M
• "The Rise of the “Gig Economy” and Implications for Understanding Work and Workers" (2016)

• Kässi, Otto; Lehdonvirta, Vili
• "Online labour index: Measuring the online gig economy for policy and research" (2018)

• Malin, Brenton J; Chandler, Curry
• "Free to Work Anxiously: Splintering Precarity Among Drivers for Uber and Lyft" (2016)

• Moniz, António B; Krings, Bettina-Johanna
• "Robots Working with Humans or Humans Working with Robots? Searching for Social Dimensions in New Human-Robot Interaction in Industry" (2016)

• Morgan, George; Nelligan, Pariece
• The Creativity Hoax: Precarious Work in the Gig Economy (2018)

• Peticca-Harris, A; DeGAMA, N
• "Postcapitalist precarious work and those in the 'drivers' seat: Exploring the motivations and lived experiences of Uber drivers in Canada" (2020)

  (p.46) Postcapitalism within the context of platform-based sharing economy as we have revealed, maynot be an anti-capitalist alternative but it has presented new challenges, insights, and configurations of capitalism. One such expression of postcapitalism that this article has reflected on is thework and lives of Uber drivers. Driving for Uber is a personalized, commercial endeavor, established in the dark spaces that current business models and legislation are only starting to ventureinto. It does not remedy threats to instability, precariousness or work intensification. Rather, forsome drivers, it exacerbates these realities.

• Peticca-Harris, A; DeGAMA, N; others
• "Postcapitalist precarious work and those in the 'drivers' seat: Exploring the motivations and lived experiences of Uber drivers in Canada" (2020)

• Polkowska, Dominika
• "Unionisation and mobilisation within platform work: towards precarisation—a case of Uber drivers in Poland" (2021)

• Poutanen, Seppo; Kovalainen, Anne; Rouvinen, Petri
• Digital Work in the Platform Economy (2019)

• Schor, Juliet
• After the Gig (2020)

• Schor, Juliet B; Attwood-Charles, William; Cansoy, Mehmet; Ladegaard, Isak; Wengronowitz, Robert
• "Dependence and precarity in the platform economy" (2020)

• Schwartz, David
• "Embedded in the Crowd: Creative Freelancers, Crowdsourced Work, and Occupational Community" (2018)

• Shestakofsky, Benjamin
• "Working Algorithms: Software Automation and the Future of Work" (2017)

• Surie, Aditi; Koduganti, Jyothi
• "The Emerging Nature of Work in Platform Economy Companies in Bengaluru, India: The Case of Uber and Ola Cab Drivers" (2016)

• Vallas, Steven; Schor, Juliet B
• "What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy" (2020)

  (p.687) Originally considered a curious novelty, labor platforms have now established themselves as important players in domestic and, increasingly, global labor markets. Scholars have produced several insightful theorizations of them. We identified four controlling images in the literature; however, each has weaknesses. We have added a fifth, which contends that from the point of view of labor and the future of work, platforms should be thought of as a new economic form, distinct from markets, firms, and networks. 

• "What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy" (2020)

• Wood, Alex J; Graham, Mark; Lehdonvirta, Vili; Hjorth, Isis
• "Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy" (2019)

  (p.64) A far more effective means of control was the ‘algorithmic management’ enabled by platform-based rating and reputation systems (Lee et al., 2015; Rosenblat and Stark, 2016). Workers were rated by their clients following the completion of tasks. Workers with the best scores and the most experience tended to receive more work due to clients’ preferences and the platforms’ algorithmic ranking of workers within search results. This form of control was very effective, as informants stressed the importance of maintaining a high average rating and good accuracy scores. Whereas Uber’s algorithmic management ‘deactivates’ (dismisses) workers with ratings deemed low (Rosenblat and...

• "Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy" (2019)

• "Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the Gig Economy" (2019)

• Wood, Alex J; Lehdonvirta, Vili; Graham, Mark
• "Workers of the Internet unite? Online freelancer organisation among remote gig economy workers in six Asian and African countries" (2018)

• Woodcock, Jamie; Graham, Mark
• The Gig Economy (2019)

• van Dijck, José; Poell, Thomas; de Waal, Martijn
• The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World (2018)

• Švarc, Jadranka; Dabić, Marina
• "The digitalisation of work: Which way forward?" (2021)