Tag: digital labour

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, ...
Read More Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘charter of good work’ is nothing but fairwashing

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 ...
Read More How to build a fairer gig economy in 4 steps by Professor Mark Graham

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’ ...
Read More New book: How to Run a City Like Amazon and Other Fables

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 ...
Read More Fairwork Foundation’s First Annual Report Released!

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, ...
Read More Fairwork project releases latest digital platform scores

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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More The rise of the planetary labour market

19 October 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

Nature just published a published a long article about the ‘three ways that the digital revolution is reshaping workforces around the world.’ Amir Anwar and I were interviewed for ...
Read More The shape of work to come

17 October 2017

Authors: Nicolas Friederici

We will attend next year’s Global Conference of Economic Geography (GCEG) in full strength, running two hopefully lively sessions. Both run under the larger theme “Digital Economies, Digital Connectivity, ...
Read More CfP for sessions at GCEG: Digital Economies, Digital Connectivity, Digital Margins

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 ...
Read More How the world’s largest companies use online freelancing platforms: New report

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, ...
Read More Comparing the OLI Worker Map to other studies on online work supply

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 ...
Read More Where are online workers located? The international division of digital gig work

11 July 2017

Authors: Otto Kassi

As more and more tasks and projects are transacted via online platforms and apps, national governments and statistical agencies face increasing challenges in tracking the growth of this phenomenon. ...
Read More Measuring the supply of digital labour: How the OLI worker supplement is constructed

10 July 2017

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Online Labour Index, July 2016 – June 2017 (28-day moving average) Online freelancing and crowdwork are some of the terms used for temporary and project-based work conducted remotely over ...
Read More The online gig economy grew 26% over the past year