Tag: digital economy
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California’s Proposition 22 Reinforces the Need for Fair Working Conditions Worldwide
10 November 2020
Author:Sara Spinks
Fairwork researchers Shelly Steward, Pablo Aguera Reneses, Srujana Katta, and Professor Mark Graham explain the implications of Proposition 22 legislation on gig economy workers. Last Tuesday, voters in California ...
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How workers learn skills in the online platform economy, and how platforms, policies, and learning providers can support them
5 November 2020
Authors:Vili Lehdonvirta
Julian Albert
In their blog, Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research, Vili Lehdonvirta and doctoral candidate Julian Albert outline how online freelancers develop their skills, how platform providers match ...
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California’s Proposition 22 Presents an Alarming Turning Point in Labour Law
28 October 2020
Authors:Shelly Steward
Pablo Aguera Reneses
Srujana Katta
Mark Graham
California’s Proposition 22 Presents an Alarming Turning Point in Labour Law Researchers from the Fairwork Foundation, Shelly Steward, Pablo Aguera Reneses, Srujana Katta, and Professor Mark Graham explain what ...
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Uphold Digital Sovereignty, Avert Digital Autarky
30 September 2020
Authors:Nikita Aggarwal
Luciano Floridi
Matthias Qian
By Nikita Aggarwal, Research Associate, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, Professor Luciano Floridi, Director, Oxford Internet Institute and Dr Matthias Qian, Departmental Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of ...
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Tackling the ethical challenges of the gig economy
10 September 2020
Authors:Nikita Aggarwal
Luciano Floridi
Tackling the ethical challenges of the gig economy By Nikita Aggarwal, Research Associate, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and doctoral candidate, Faculty of Law, University ...
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Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘charter of good work’ is nothing but fairwashing
3 February 2020
Authors:Kelle Howson
Srujana Katta
Funda Ustek-Spilda
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
Author: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
Author: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: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
Rebecca Schwartz
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: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
Author:Fairwork project
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
Author: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
Author: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
Author: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
Author: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
Author: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
Author: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
Author: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
Author: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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