The Platform Economy and the Disruption of the Employment Relationship

Drahokoupil, Jan; Fabo, Brian

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2809517

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“…Emergence and growth of the platform economy, along with the changing work relationships on the platforms, introduces important questions around whether and how meaningful work is experienced by a growing share of the creative workforce employed by these platforms. In particular, there are concerns about the erosion of meaning in work for platform economy workers, as discussed in the next section (Drahokoupil and Fabo, 2016).…”

Section: Concepts Of Meaningful Workmentioning

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In search of meaningful work on digital freelancing platforms: the case of design professionals

Nemkova

Demirel

Baines

2019

New Technol Work Employ

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Growth of the platform economy has been accompanied by critiques of the fragmented, isolated and precarious nature of the employment it offers. Yet, little is known about how creative freelancers perceive the meaning of work on the platforms. Based on 40 interviews with freelancers, clients, platform owners and industry experts, this paper reveals that most freelancers are concerned about how operating through the platform, and their dependence on it, is undermining the meaningfulness of their work. Freelancers find that the platforms are eroding both the manifest (i.e. monetary) and latent (i.e. non‐monetary) meaning of their work although they are mostly concerned about the latent element of meaning. The analysis reveals that the small group of freelancers who pursue meaningful work and earn a sustainable income on platforms are those with strong entrepreneurial orientation.

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Section: Concepts Of Meaningful Workmentioning

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In search of meaningful work on digital freelancing platforms: the case of design professionals

Nemkova

Demirel

Baines

2019

New Technol Work Employ

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“…Italy, with 23% self-employment, is also well above average. Much more generally, the growth of the 'platform' or 'gig' economy has created new forms of spurious self-employment (Drahokoupil and Fabo, 2016). Another feature of more traditional sectors of employment is the 'posting' of workers from low-wage countries to undertake contracts in economies with better pay and conditions, undercutting local standards.…”

Section: The Challenge For Labourmentioning

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Resisting labour market insecurity: Old and new actors, rivals or allies?

Hyman

Gumbrell‐McCormick

2017

Journal of Industrial Relations

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In most of the world, work has usually been precarious. For several decades, however, greater employment security was achieved in the developed economies. These gains have been increasingly eroded by neoliberal globalisation. We focus on Western Europe to examine whether trade unions are merely protectors of the remaining labour market 'insiders', or whether they can also represent the interests of the growing numbers of 'outsiders'. We also examine the role of 'new' social movements in mobilising against insecurity. Our reflections end by considering whether and how the two modes of response offered by trade unions and social movements may be integrated.

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“…The most important qualitative change is the possibility for self-employment, like, for example, for driver-partners with the company Uber; another example is the Italian company CoContest specializing in design of interiors [21]. A special review prepared by the European Trade Unions Institute highlights the following cardinal changes that can greatly influence the situation in the jobs market in the conditions of a wide use of electronic platforms [22]:…”

Section: Electronic Platforms and Jobs Marketsmentioning

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Electronic platforms as a new ecosystem of the organization and the conduct of business

2018

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Abstract. At the present moment, leading industrial countries and such new and quickly growing economies as China and India that also actively use the possibilities provided by new technological platforms, form a new type economy known as "digital economy" or "economy of joint use". As the new technological platform is based on information technologies, the best synergetic effect is achieved through using electronic platforms, with their number and variety quickly growing, so they are actually creating a new infrastructure for communication between the primary economic agents. A new ecosystem also provides new possibilities, including instrumental ones, for conduct of business, searching for jobs and developing the business environment. This article analyzes new trends in development of business in the conditions of a newly forming digital economy.

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The Platform Economy and the Disruption of the Employment Relationship

Cited by 100 publications

References 5 publications

In search of meaningful work on digital freelancing platforms: the case of design professionals

In search of meaningful work on digital freelancing platforms: the case of design professionals

Resisting labour market insecurity: Old and new actors, rivals or allies?

Electronic platforms as a new ecosystem of the organization and the conduct of business

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