Fabian Ferrari

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Ferrari, F. & Graham, M. 2021. Fissures in Algorithmic Power: Platforms, Code, and Contestation, Cultural Studies. DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2021.1895250.

Van Doorn, N., Ferrari, F. and Graham, M., 2020. Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy: An Intervention. Available at SSRN.

Other Publications

Graham, M., Howson, K., Ustek-Spilda, F., Bertolini, A., Katta, S., Bertolini, A., Badger, A., and Ferrari, F. 2020. If platforms do not protect gig workers, who will? New Internationalist. April 23, 2020.

Ustek-Spilda, F., Graham, M., Bertolini, A., Katta, S., Ferrari, F., and Howson, K. 2020. From Social Distancing to Social Solidarity: Gig economy and the Covid-19. OECD Development Matters. March 27, 2020.

Ustek-Spilda, F., Graham, M., Katta, S., Ferrari, F., Badger, A., Howson, K., and Neerukonda, M. 2020. The politics of Covid-19: Gig work in the coronavirus crisis. Red Pepper. March 26, 2020.

Ustek-Spilda, F., Graham, M., Katta, S., Howson, K., Ferrari, F., and Bertolini, A. 2020. The Untenable Luxury of Self-Isolation. New Internationalist. March 18, 2020.

Ferrari, F., and Graham, M. 2019. Myth: Digital Work is Immaterial. In Bust-ed! The Truth About the 50 Most Common Internet Myths. In Kettemann, M. C., and Dreyer, S. (eds). Berlin: Internet Governance Forum. 146-149.

Graham, M., Ferrari, F., and Woodcock, J. 2019. Plattformökonomie braucht Mindeststandards. Der Tagesspiegel. Apr 15, 2019.

News

• Platform economy assessed for first time in Germany: COVID-19 pandemic brings into sharp relief risks faced by workers

  21 May 2020

  The Fairwork Project launches its first set of annual ratings for digital platforms in Germany, highlighting the precarious nature of work in the platform economy.

Press

• How is the platform economy responding to COVID-19?

  14 May 2020 Open Democracy

  
  

  Although there is little evidence of ‘disaster capitalism’, ‘compassionate capitalism’ has been in rather short supply.

• If platforms do not protect gig workers, who will?

  23 April 2020 New Internationalist

  
  

  Coronavirus is showing that precarity and dangerous working conditions are a choice companies have been making for workers, not a necessary payoff for flexibility and independence, say Fairwork researchers.

• From Social Distancing to Social Solidarity: Gig economy and the Covid-19

  27 March 2020 OECD Development Matters

  
  

  The risks faced by members of the gig economy during the Covid-19 outbreak.

• The politics of Covid-19: Gig work in the coronavirus crisis

  26 March 2020 red pepper

  
  

  How long are we willing to turn a blind eye to the vulnerabilities of essential workers on the bottom of the employment hierarchy, asks the Fairwork Foundation.

• The Untenable Luxury of Self-isolation

  18 March 2020 New Internationalist

  
  

  A coalition of gig economy researchers at Fairwork explain how gig workers are being hit hardest by COVID-19.

• Ghosts in the machines: the invisible human labour behind AI

  5 June 2019 The New Statesman

  
  

  The greatest risk may not be that computers will one day think like humans, but that humans will forget about the workers sustaining our digital economy.

• Plattformökonomie braucht Mindeststandards

  15 April 2019 Tagesspiegel

  
  

  Die globale Plattformökonomie zeige die begrenzte Macht nationaler Regulierung auf, erklärt Mark Graham, Professor am Oxford Internet Institute. Ohne Mindeststandards werden Plattformarbeiter weiterhin ausgebeutet.

• The Digital Age: A Progressive Future of Work

  26 February 2019 Progressive Post

  
  

  Shaping the future of work in the digital age for the benefit of society is a key task for Progressives. The challenges surrounding the fourth industrial revolution are an impetus to think comparatively.