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Independent Workers: Growth Trends, Categories, and Employee Relations Implications in the Emerging Gig Economy

verfasst von: Teresa Shuk-Ching Poon

Erschienen in: Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal | Ausgabe 1/2019

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Abstract

The major objectives of this paper are threefold. First, the paper captures and explains the recent growth trends of independent workers, working as freelancers for corporations, and offering on-demand services for various types of clients mediated by App-enabled platform companies. Second, the paper discusses different terminologies used to describe independent workers and highlights the emergence of a new category of independent on-demand workers, the employment status of whom is a subject of current empirical and academic debate. Finally, the paper discusses the emergence of an increasing number of collective actions recently taken by on-demand workers against platform companies over worsened level of wages, undesirable terms and conditions of work, and inadequate workers’ protection, and examines their implications for the discipline of employee relations.

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Metadaten
Titel
Independent Workers: Growth Trends, Categories, and Employee Relations Implications in the Emerging Gig Economy
verfasst von
Teresa Shuk-Ching Poon
Publikationsdatum
05.06.2018
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal / Ausgabe 1/2019
Print ISSN: 0892-7545
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-3378
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10672-018-9318-8

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