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Careers Delivered from the Kitchen? Immigrant Women Small-scale Entrepreneurs Working in the Growing Nordic Platform Economy

Webster, N. & Zhang, Q.

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NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

Contesting ‘bogus self-employment’ via legal mobilisation: The case of foster care workers

Kirk, E.

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Capital & Class

Emerging forms of worker collectivism among the precariat: When will capital’s ‘gig’ be up?

Gall, G.

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Capital & Class

‘Becoming mainstream’: the professionalisation and corporatisation of digital nomadism

Aroles, J., Granter, E., de Vaujany, F.-X.

Article in Press

New Technology, Work and Employment

The platform as factory: Crowdwork and the hidden labour behind artificial intelligence

Altenreid, M.

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Capital & Class


Sceptics or supporters? Consumers' views of work in the gig economy

J Healy, A Pekarek, A Vromen

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New Technology, Work and Employment

Future trends of AI-based smart systems and services: Challenges, opportunities, and solutions

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Journal of Information Processing Systems

Chasing rainbows: How many educational qualifications do young people need to acquire meaningful, ongoing work?

Chesters, J., Wyn, J

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Journal of Sociology.

Making a Pro: Professionalism after Platforms in Beauty-work

Raval, N., Pal, J.

Article

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Individual and collaborative behaviors of rideshare drivers in protecting their safety

Almoqbel, M.Y., Wohn, D.Y.

Article

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

A longitudinal study of piece rate and health: evidence and implications for workers in the US gig economy

Davis, M.E., Hoyt, E.

Article

Public Health

Power dynamics and privacy protection in the gig economy

Sannon, S.

Article

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Collective innovation

Gerber, E.M., Nickerson, J.V., Dontcheva, M., Dabbish, L., Hill, C.

Article

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

The future of work(places): Creating a sense of place for on-demand work

Hui, J., Cranshaw, J., Kotturi, Y., Kulkarni, C.

Article

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

On why Uber has not taken over the world

Fleming, P., Rhodes, C., Yu, K.-H.

Article

Economy and Society.

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