Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘charter of good work’ is nothing but fairwashing

3 February 2020

Authors: Mark Graham

Latest analysis on the gig economy from researchers Kelle Howson, Srujana Katta, Funda Ustek-Spilda and Professor Mark Graham, The authors work at the University of Oxford’s Fairwork Foundation, ...
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Hidden Transcripts of the Gig Economy: Labour Agency and the New Art of Resistance among African Gig Workers. (New Publication)

21 December 2019

Authors: Mark Graham

I have a new publication out with my colleague Amir Anwar that draws on the years of research we have done with digital workers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Details, and ...
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How to build a fairer gig economy in 4 steps by Professor Mark Graham

4 November 2019

Authors: Mark Graham

You’ve probably heard at least two things about the gig economy. First, that it’s big. In 2019, roughly one-in-10 workers in the UK earns a living in the gig ...
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New book: How to Run a City Like Amazon and Other Fables

29 October 2019

Authors: Mark Malbas

Should cities be run like businesses? Should city services and infrastructure be run by businesses? For some urban commentators, policy-makers, politicians and corporate lobby groups, the answer is ‘yes’ ...
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Professor Gina Neff on the rise of online advertising for non-monetary rent arrangements in the online markeplace

25 October 2019

Authors: Gina Neff

The growth of online marketplaces has led to an explosion of a new type of advertisement with potential tenants being asked for just more than their monthly rent. Online ...
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Fairwork Foundation’s First Annual Report Released!

17 October 2019

Authors: Mark Graham

The Fairwork Foundation – an organisation supported by the OII – is delighted to announce the release of our first major report, The Five Pillars of Fairwork. This report ...
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Fairwork project releases latest digital platform scores

4 June 2019

Authors: Sara Spinks

Tens of millions of people across the world now find work through digital platforms. From Brazil and India, to South Africa and the United States, platform workers are organising, ...
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Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the Gig Economy

4 March 2019

Authors: Mark Graham

I have a new article out with some colleagues: Wood, A., Graham, M., Lehdonvirta, A., and Hjorth, I. 2019. Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the ...
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We’re Hiring! Postdoc to focus on ‘fair work’ on digital work platforms in South Africa

3 August 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

Cross post from the Fairwork Foundation blog. We are about to launch a new phase of the Fairwork project in South Africa with our colleague at the University of Cape Town, ...
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The Future of Work in the Global South

8 March 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

A network that I am part of – the The Future of Work in Developing Countries initiative – has just put out a new publication titled ‘The Future ...
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Towards a Fairer Platform Economy: Introducing the Fairwork Foundation

16 February 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

This month, I started work on a new project together with my new colleague Jamie Woodcock: The Fairwork Foundation. With generous funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation ...
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CFP – Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice

30 January 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff University, 28–31 August 2018 Session sponsor: the Digital Geographies Working Group ...
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The rise of the planetary labour market

30 January 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

I have a short piece in New Statesman about the rise of what I am calling a planetary labour market. I wrote it because this will be the ...
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The rise of the planetary labour market

30 January 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

I have a short piece in New Statesman about the rise of what I am calling a planetary labour market. I wrote it because this will be the ...
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Flexibility in the gig economy: How workers manage time on online piecework platforms

10 January 2018

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Gig economy platforms seem to provide extreme temporal flexibility to workers, giving them full control over how to spend each hour and minute of the day. What constraints do ...
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How Uber is changing transportation in Southeast Asia – and with what lessons for Europe

7 September 2017

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

This is a guest article written by OII doctoral candidate Godofredo Ramizo Jr., who is researching the socio-political impact of ride apps in Southeast Asian megacities. Uber and other ...
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How the world’s largest companies use online freelancing platforms: New report

29 August 2017

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Online labour platforms allow companies to source work from freelancers over the Internet on an on-demand basis. We know that this phenomenon grew about 26 percent globally over the ...
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Comparing the OLI Worker Map to other studies on online work supply

14 July 2017

Authors: Otto Kassi

Our new Online Labour Index worker map provides a real-time measurement of the online gig economy by revealing where different types of jobs are taking place. To our knowledge, ...
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World regions’ access to the internet

12 July 2017

Authors: Ralph Straumann

The previous post in this mini-series, Who can access the internet?, looked at internet penetration in country context. In this post, we compare world regions and their access to ...
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Where are online workers located? The international division of digital gig work

11 July 2017

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Online Labour Index top occupation by country, 1-6 July 2017 The Internet has created a global market for digitally delivered freelance work, which is currently growing rapidly. Our new ...
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