Investigating social protection amongst platform workers in Germany: forced individualisation, hybrid income generation and undesired regulation
Fabian Beckmann,
Sabrina Glanz,
Fabian Hoose
et al.
Abstract:The social protection of platform workers is considered one of the most precarious features and political challenges of this new form of employment. Still, there have only been a few empirical investigations on this issue to date. This article presents an explorative empirical analysis of the social protection of platform workers in Germany – a conservative welfare regime with a strong link between standard employment and institutionalised social protection. On the basis of an online survey amongst 719 self-em… Show more
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