Drawing from the social study of the gig economy and platform labour and from the
sociology of risk, this article explores how on-demand food couriers in Edinburgh, Scotland …

'Gig'or platform-based work represents one of the most recent, highly-publicized labour
market trends. Attributed to the increased demand for flexibility on the part of employers …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a categorization of sharing practices from a
structured interdisciplinary literature review on the Sharing Economy. Instead of striving for a …

The sharing economy is an emerging niche for innovation capable of disrupting established
socio-technical and economic regimes. Because of this potential to cause radical changes in …

Abstract This Special Issue holds that managerialism is not an abstract, trans-historical
category, and this article argues that neither is it hidden within an impenetrable black box …

Despite growing attention from companies and regulators looking to eradicate modern
slavery, we know little about how slavery works from a business perspective. We address …

15 Results 16 Who Are the Workers? 17 How Does the Gig Economy Shape the Social and
Economic Well-Being of Gig Workers? 17 Why Do Gig Work? 17 How Do Workers …

The idea behind this book and the manuscript thereof have been accompanying me over the
last 3 years and in the course of a number of different academic positions and States. It was …

This paper places the case of Cambridge Analytica's theft of data from Facebook user
profiles into a larger context of the growing importance of surveillance in modern-day …

The sharing economy has grown significantly in recent years and is expected to expand
further in the future. While many proponents suggest that it will lead to inclusive and …