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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Platform work"”.
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Informality, Precarity, and (Mis)classification: Regulating Platform Work in India
… the misclassification of location-based digital platform workers in India and examine the extent of protections that can be accorded to them within the framework of labour and constitutional rights. It firstly argues that the exclusion of platform workers from the purview of the formalistic …
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Platform work in Bengaluru: worker articulations and platform design in India's informal economy
… a discursive hold telling us how digital labour platforms impact workers. The fear inherent in this discourse comes from the fact that many global North workers are faced with only ‘casualized' platform work rather than job opportunities that come with career progression, steady increments to …
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Development of a microfluidic platform for integrated DNA sequencing protocols
… the design and development of a microfluidic platform to reduce costs and improve the quality of in the DNA sequencing methodology currently implemented at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Sequencing Center at the Broad Institute currently generates an average of 130 …
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Organizing the hosts: flexible strategies of formalized and collaborative labor in Airbnb property management
… The dominance of such companies on the Airbnb platform intensifies its negative effects on neighborhoods, namely contributing to rising rents and the removal of housing from the long-term rental market. Nevertheless, relatively little is known about the organization of labor within these …
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How Technological Advancements and Digitalization Impact Both Organizational Behavior and Work Structures
… transformations can affect day-to-day work and impact working practices (Orlikowski, 2002; Watson-Manheim et al., 2002, 2012). On the one hand, this enables more flexible working conditions through the introduction of hybrid work, for instance (Halford, 2005). On the other hand, new …
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Dealing with uncertainties in platform services
Platform services - services that are provided to organizations through online platforms - are increasingly being adopted and used within firms. The novelty of these services is generating uncertainties for both providers and customers. As these uncertainties and their consequences are not well …
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Working on-demand in the domestic sector: A case study on the experiences of platform domestic work in Cape Town
There is a growing presence of platform companies of the gig economy that are providing platform domestic work in South Africa, more specifically cleaning services. In the platform domestic work model, the provision of domestic service is now undertaken on an on-demand basis and is organized and …
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The Working Poor : Labour Strategies of Welfare Recipients in Helsinki, 1890–1970
This study discusses urban poverty and precarious work from early industrialization until the era of the welfare state in Finland. The dissertation analyses the labour strategies of individuals in the receipt of poor relief or social assistance allowances in Helsinki between the early 1890s and the …
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Devising a refined framework for distinguishing between ‘workers’ and ‘self-employed persons-undertakings’ in the EU labour and competition law fields: Lessons from the EU agency acquis
… In addition to part-time, fixed-term and agency work (the original ‘atypical’ contracts), new casual forms of employment have become more prevalent such as zero-hours contracts, employee sharing, ICT-based mobile work, interim management, portfolio, crowd, and platform work. These new forms of …
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Cross-border Investigative Journalism: a critical perspective
… studies in global media have examined new frameworks and developments, as well as emerging new practices in global investigative journalism in a digitally networked society, this has usually come from a positivist view of strengthening democracy, with an added techno-euphoria. This research …
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Is technology eating the temporary staffing industry? An analysis of Upwork
The rise of web-based work platforms such as Uber has sparked speculation about the potential of these platforms to revolutionize the labor market. This speculation has rarely been accompanied by a data-based explanation of the competitive advantages of web-based work platforms or the mechanisms by …