Fabian’s doctoral research examined the political economy of artificial intelligence.
He 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 was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the University of Oxford (Scatcherd European Scholarship).
Digital labour; gig economy; platforms; machine learning; infrastructures; power; qualitative methods.
Graham, M. & Ferrari, F. 2022. Digital Work in the Planetary Market. MIT Press.
By Mark Graham and Fabian Ferrari
Understanding the embedded and disembedded, material and immaterial, territorialized and deterritorialized natures of digital work.
By Kelle Howson, Hannah Johnston, Nancy Salem, Robbie Warin, Fabian Ferrari, Yihan Zhu, Pablo Aguera Reneses, Funda Ustek-Spilda, Daniel Arubayi, Srujana Katta, Shelly Steward, Matthew Cole, Adam Badger, and Mark Graham
What sort of working standards do gig economy remote workers face? This Fairwork report scores 17 platforms on the conditions they offer, and highlights the failure to offer basic standards of fairness across much of the cloudwork industry.
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.
17 May 2022
We are pleased to announce the publication of Digital Work in the Planetary Market, a new book analysing the geographies of digital work.
17 March 2021
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.
14 May 2020
