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Over the last decade there has been a continuing decline in social trust on the part of individuals with regards to the handling and fair use of personal data, digital assets and other related rights in general. At the same time, there has been a change in the employment patterns for many people through the emergence of the gig economy. These gig w...
While researchers have studied the benefits and hazards of crowdsourcing for diverse classes of workers, most work has focused on those having high familiarity with both computers and English. We explore whether paid crowdsourcing can be inclusive of individuals in rural India, who are relatively new to digital devices and literate mainly in local ...
Data-driven algorithms now enable digital labor platforms to automatically manage transactions between thousands of gig workers and service recipients. Recent research on algorithmic management outlines information asymmetries, which make it difficult for gig workers to gain control over their work due a lack of understanding how algorithms on digi...
The European Union has urged the European Commission, Member States and social partners to establish rules for an economic sphere which is either deregulated or has significant gaps in regulation: digitilisation and the platform economy. The European Parliament has made a series of recommendations which establish the social guidelines necessary to ...
Contingent work represents a sort of paradigmatic epiphenomenon of a new expression of the Labour Law need to reconsider itself, its identity and its same scope in a future perspective. The employment contract looses its capacity to select the situations that need protection. By the way, workers’ professionalism always requires to be safeguarded, a...
M a y 2 0 1 9 J O U R N A L O F I N T E R N E T L A W 3 The Platformized Internet: Issues for Internet Law and Policy Terry Flew INTRODUCTION: THE PLATFORMIZED INTERNET Conversations about the Internet in the 2010s tended to go along two distinct tracks. One track pointed to the new affordances of digital and social media. The other focused upon t...
This study examines how African American adults attending a code bootcamp continue to learn coding literacy despite life challenges associated with racial oppression. Eleven out of twelve study participants drew maps of their support and discussed in one-on-one interviews how the people, objects, and animals in their drawings assisted their approac...
Transgender and non-binary people face substantial challenges in the world, ranging from social inequities and discrimination to lack of access to resources. Though technology cannot fully solve these problems, technological solutions may help to address some of the challenges trans people and communities face. We conducted a series of participator...
More and more workers in Western economies are operating as freelancers in the so-called ‘gig economy’, moving from one project—or gig—to the next. A lively debate revolves around the question as to whether this new employment relationship is actually good for innovation in the 21st century economy. Proponents argue that in this gig process valuabl...
Transportation and MinorityTransportation and Minority Women�s Employment:Women�s Employment: Insights from New YorkInsights from New York Sara McLafferty Hunter College, City University of New York Valerie Preston York University, Toronto 19 TRTRANSPORANSPORTTAATION AND TION AND MINORITY WOMEN�SMINORITY WOMEN�S EMPLEMPLOOYMENTYMENT: : INSIGHTS FR...
Who Can Work from Home?* In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many states have adopted stay-at-home orders, rendering a large segment of the workforce unable to continue doing their jobs. These policies have distributional consequences, as workers in some occupations may be better able to continue their work from home. I identify the segments of t...
The use of digital technology has become a key part of contemporary debates on how work is changing, the future of work/ers, resistance, and organising. Workerism took up many of these questions in the context of the factory – particularly through the Italian Operaismo – connecting the experience of the workplace with a broader struggle against cap...
A growing number of people are working as part of on-line crowd work, which has been characterized by its low wages; yet, we know little about wage distribution and causes of low/high earnings. We recorded 2,676 workers performing 3.8 million tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Our tasklevel analysis revealed that workers earned a median hourly wage o...
This research is based on empirical surveys conducted in two Chinese cities, Beijing and Chengdu, which examine employment relationships, labor protection and social protection in the new digital economy. Through these theoretically informed surveys on various forms of employment via online platforms, we have found that the organizational principle...
Bezos World or Levelers: Can We Choose Our Scenario? UCLA AI PULSE Papers Title Bezos World Or Levelers: Can We Choose Our Scenario? Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/50v7196x Author Lempert, Robert Publication Date 2019-02-07 eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California https://escholarship.org/uc/i...
Entrepreneurship is becoming an important economic development strategy for communities across the nation. This research distinguishes between innovative and non-innovative entrepreneurs as well as “traditional” entrepreneurs—percent nonfarm proprietors of total employed—across counties in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Three sets of predict...
Digitalization has significantly changed the way individuals work for a couple of decades. The emergence and expansion of sharing economy enabled by information technology have fundamentally changed the traditional business models. In this paper, we examine the impacts of the sharing economy platforms (specifically, Uber) on labor force participati...
CoRe_4-2017_Article_Ranchordas.pdf University of Groningen Peers or Professionals? The P2P-Economy and Competition Law Ranchordás, Sofia Published in: European Competition and Regulatory Law Review IMPORTANT NOTE: You are advised to consult the publisher's version (publisher's PDF) if you wish to cite from it. Please check the document version bel...
This commentary traces contemporary discourses on the relationship between artificial intelligence and labour and explains why these principles must be comprehensive in their approach to labour and AI. First, the commentary asserts that ethical frameworks in AI alone are not enough to guarantee workers’ rights since they lack enforcement mechanisms ...
Blockchain technology is an innovation of the 21st century that is supposed to act as a trust-building factor and may provide the foundation for trust-free systems as well as market exchanges. We investigate how the trustrelated properties of blockchain technology influence trust relationships of participants in the platform economy. Building on th...
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