Work in the Platform Economy: Beyond Lower Transaction Costs

Drahokoupil, Jan; Piasna, Agnieszka

doi:10.1007/s10272-017-0700-9

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“…From the firm's perspective, the pool of migrant women provides ample labour supply for their firm. Many of Yummy's running costs are deflected onto the women's households (Aloisi, 2016;Drahokoupil & Piasna, 2017). Moreover, the responsibility of establishing a successful business is placed firmly on the women (Duffy & Pruchniewska, 2017).…”

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Careers Delivered from the Kitchen? Immigrant Women Small-scale Entrepreneurs Working in the Growing Nordic Platform Economy

Webster

Zhang

2020

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

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In Sweden, several trends intersect: the gig economy is growing rapidly; immigrants find it challenging to find work; and integration policies increasingly focus on the role of the first job as a benchmark for integration. This empirical study inserts an intersectional perspective into the exploration of the gig economy by examining immigrant women's daily working experiences within a transactional gig platform, "Yummy". This food app links home-based chefs to public consumers through online ordering systems. Through in-depth interviews with chefs, the app management team and participatory observations at firm training sessions and food festivals, we explore the complexity of gendered and racialized precarious work from inside the gig economy to consider daily gig life from a feminist economics perspective. The study shows the gig economy does provide entrepreneurial opportunities for new immigrants with these being based on gendered norms. We demonstrate how gendered narratives of idle capacities and women's work in the home and family spheres are marketized and transformed through the platform. Our study widens the scope of understanding the gig economy by positioning gig work as part of broader social relations between a company, the workers and gender norms.

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Careers Delivered from the Kitchen? Immigrant Women Small-scale Entrepreneurs Working in the Growing Nordic Platform Economy

Webster

Zhang

2020

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

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“…The activities carried out consist of the collection of data, its identification, and the labelling of images. However, the potential and concrete effects on the labour market remain noticeable (see Aloisi, 2015;D'Cruz, 2017;Drahokoupil and Piasna, 2017;Scholz, 2017). 2.…”

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The Digital Economy: Opportunities and Challenges

Amuso

Poletti²,

Montibello³

2019

Global Policy

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“…However, as Drakoupil and Piasna (2017) point out, the employment in platform may not necessarily be a question of matching demand and supply, but rather of control over the process and of asymmetric information. In fact, the quality of the matching via digital platforms may decrease rather than improve allocative efficiency.…”

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Quantity and Quality of Work in the Platform Economy

Bogliacino

Codagnone

Cirillo

et al. 2020

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

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Work in the Platform Economy: Beyond Lower Transaction Costs

Cited by 69 publications

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Careers Delivered from the Kitchen? Immigrant Women Small-scale Entrepreneurs Working in the Growing Nordic Platform Economy

Careers Delivered from the Kitchen? Immigrant Women Small-scale Entrepreneurs Working in the Growing Nordic Platform Economy

The Digital Economy: Opportunities and Challenges

Quantity and Quality of Work in the Platform Economy

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