This Article provides an analytical overview of the labor implications of the so-called “gig-
economy.” The gig-economy is usually understood to include chiefly two forms of …

This working paper analyses national and supranational case law and legislation about the
employment status of platform workers. It does so by referring to the ILO Employment …

This report maps a kaleidoscopic array of platform-mediated working arrangements, by
clustering the findings into three main subsets (passenger transport services, professional …

The status of Uber drivers–the question of whether they are independent contractors (as
argued by Uber) or employees–has been the subject of a heated debate recently. The goal …

An Introduction to Population Geographies provides a foundation to the incredibly diverse,
topical and interesting field of twenty-first-century population geography. It establishes the …

Increasing longevity and the strain on state and occupational pensions have brought into
question long-held assumptions about the age of retirement, and raised the prospect of a …

Riqueza e miséria do trabalho no Brasil v. IV, coletânea organizada pelo sociólogo e
professor da Unicamp Ricardo Antunes, explora os novos desenhos das relações de …

Marx is generally reckoned to have had too little to say about what has come to be defined
as 'social reproduction', largely as a consequence of too narrow a focus on industrial …

The use of zero-hours contracts (ZHCs) has been associated with the transfer of risk away
from corporate employers and towards individual employees. In universities increasing …

Zero hours work typifies work where there are no guaranteed hours offered by the employer.
This article examines the relationship between the state and the emergence of zero hours …