Tag: digital labour
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Fairwork Ecuador Scores 2021: Rating fairness in the Latin American gig economy
30 March 2021
Authors:María Belén Albornoz
Henry Chávez
Jean-Paul Van Belle
Funda Ustek-Spilda
Alessio Bertolini
Pablo Aguera Reneses
Akhil Kumar
Mark Graham
Fairwork Ecuador Scores 2021: Rating fairness in the Latin American gig economy The Fairwork Ecuador 2021 report evaluates the working conditions in six of the most prominent platforms in ...
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Uber forced to recognise its drivers as workers, but falls short of offering Fair Pay and Representation
17 March 2021
Authors:Srujana Katta
Pablo Aguera
Ahkil Kumar
Funda Ustek Spilda
Kelle Howson
Matthew Cole
Fabian Ferrari
Alessio Bertolini
David Sutcliffe
Mark Graham
By Srujana Katta, Pablo Aguera, Akhil Kumar, Funda Ustek Spilda, Kelle Howson, Matthew Cole, Fabian Ferrari, Alessio Bertolini, David Sutcliffe, Mark Graham A month after the UK Supreme Court ...
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ILO report: The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work
24 February 2021
Authors:Fabian Stephany
Vili Lehdonvirta
Digital labour platforms have become a pervasive feature of contemporary society. They allow us to order food, arrange a ride, or buy remote freelancing services online. But how are ...
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Lifting the lid on the gig economy
19 February 2021
Author:Sara Spinks
Fairwork researchers explain how they are shining a light on the experiences of gig workers across the globe by launching a suite of new online materials dedicated to ensuring ...
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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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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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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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Will AI kill development?
7 April 2019
Author:I had the opportunity to contribute to this new BCC World Service programme ‘Will AI kill development?’. Listen here, or contact me for an mp3 if you’re unable to ...
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New article – The Global Gig Economy: Towards a Planetary Labour Market?
7 April 2019
Author:Amir Anwar and I have a new article out in First Monday. The piece think through what a planetary labour market entails, how it is relationally, spatially, and discursively ...
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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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Government response to the Taylor Review: Good news on zero hour contracts but delay on gig economy
7 February 2018
Author:Today the government released their response to the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices. The government’s recognition that good quality work is important is very welcome. Unfortunately, much of ...
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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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