Alessio Bertolini is a Researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute for the project FairWork, where he is investigating platform work in the UK and Germany.
Before joining the OII, Alessio was a postdoctoral researcher of the project ‘Work on Demand: Contracting for Work in a Changing Economy’ headed by Prof. Ruth Dukes at the University of Glasgow. Within the broader project, Alessio had been investigating ideas and strategies used by different stakeholders and policy actors in the regulation of the platform economy in a comparative perspective.
Before joining the Work on Demand team, Alessio completed his PhD in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh on the topic of comparative labour market regulations for non-standard workers in Italy and the UK. With a background in economics and policy studies, his area of expertise involves employment and welfare rights for non-standard workers from a comparative European perspective.
More broadly, his research and teaching interests include labour markets and social security policies and regulations. Both before and during his PhD, he was involved in several national and international research projects on the topic of labour market and welfare policies.
Platform economy; labour market policy; employment precariousness; social security
With Professor Mark Graham, and Dr Alessio Bertolini
The FairWork project and how it is helping make short-term, low job security 'gig' work fairer across the world.
By Alessio Bertolini, Matthew Cole, Mark Graham, Srujana Katta, Daniel Arubayi, and Funda Ustek-Spilda
Workers in the growing gig economy face persistent gaps in worker protections. This first Fairwork UK ratings report scores ten platforms on the working conditions that they offer and highlights where labour standards need improving.
By Funda Ustek-Spilda, Richard Heeks, Mark Graham, Alessio Bertolini, Srujana Katta, Sandra Fredman, Kelle Howson, Fabian Ferrari, Mounika Neerukonda, Pradyumna Taduri, Adam Badger, and Nancy Salem
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit precarious gig workers particularly hard. This Fairwork report considers platforms’ responses to the virus and suggests that work remains to sufficiently protect their workers.
2 July 2024
Fairwork researchers propose recommendations for the incoming government, to provide a foundation for fairer and more sustainable platform work in the UK.
8 June 2022
New Oxford report reveals best and worst practices in UK gig economy.
25 May 2021
Eleven of the UK’s most popular digital labour platforms have been rated according to how fairly they treat workers. In the first study of its kind in the UK, Oxford researchers score companies on standards such as pay, conditions and management.
30 March 2021
La Repubblica, 30 October 2024
There are 2.2m Italians who declared that they received an income through a digital platform (1.5% of the population between 18 and 74 years old).
Reuters, 07 February 2023
Gig workers using digital platforms hail European Union move to boost their rights.
SRF, 17 November 2022
In this documentary, Swiss broadcaster SRF speaks to Fairwork researcher Dr Alessio Bertolini about workers' rights and the gig economy.