Fabian Ferrari

Fabian is a DPhil student at the OII, interested in the invisible labour in the shadows of AI.

Profile

Fabian holds a BA in Social Sciences from the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany, and an MSc in Politics and Communication from the London School of Economics. His doctoral research at the OII is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the University of Oxford (Scatcherd European Scholarship).

Research Interests

Digital labour; gig economy; platforms; machine learning; infrastructures; power; qualitative methods

Supervisor at OII

Mark Graham

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.