Journal article
Stripping back the mask: Working conditions on digital labour platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Digital labour platforms have been widely promoted as a solution to the unemployment crisis sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the pandemic has also highlighted the harms to gig workers—who are exposed either to income loss, or to infection while carrying out essential work, but excluded from labour protections. We examine the COVID-19 policies of 191 platforms in 43 countries to understand how the crisis has shifted the conventions of the gig economy. Using a typology of “fair platfo...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1111/ilr.12222
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- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- International Labour Review More from this journal
- Volume:
- 161
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 413-440
- Publication date:
- 2022-09-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-06-28
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1564-913X
- ISSN:
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0020-7780
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English
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1183815
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pubs:1183815
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2021-06-28
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- Howson et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2022
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- Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). This is an open access article published under CC BY 4.0.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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